This history of diving traces its evolution from fishing with spears to today's high-tech equipment. It includes accounts of some of the eccentric exploits of the pioneers.[...]
'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday Times Trevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eure[...]