Down Time: Great Writers on Diving
Description :
This is a book for divers who (like to) read. Scuba and skin diving can provide a delightful (if brief) escape from our topside travails, or an outlet for our fascination with technology and gadgets. But it also offers the opportunity for introspection, exaltation, and riveting action --in short, the stuff of great writing. Down Time explores this deeper side of diving. It's a diverse collection. Beginning in 1928 and continuing to the present, the selections are hilarious, serious, bizarre, beguiling, but always engaging reading. In essays and novels, magazine articles, poems and short stories the authors take us to tropical reefs, lightless caverns, and under the ice. A glance at the table of contents reveals famous names, forgotten heroes, distinguished and talented writers -- all lucky enough to have been underwater when inspiration, or adventure, struck. Thanks to them, Down Time explores the underwater experience in ways most readers (and most divers) haven't encountered.