Pia Ve Dahlen

The World Beneath the Waves. A Voyage of Discovery in the Ocean

As a child, Pia Ve Dahlen spent hours lying on the jetty marvelling at the life in the sea beneath her. With the aid of her grandfather’s field microscope and nature guide, she explored nature above and beneath the waves. And every new thing she learned prompted new questions.

Her curiosity grew into a passion to understand how life developed in the vast oceans that provide 99 per cent of the area in which animal life can live on our planet. The sea is where life began, and the species there have evolved under totally different conditions to land-based animals.

In The World Beneath the Waves, you’ll read about the beautiful, intelligent and awe-inspiring marine animals that have resulted from the experiments of evolution.

From the book:
"From the teeming life in the nutrient-rich seaweed belt all the way down to the abyssal plain where a handful of species have specialised in order to survive – in the pitch darkness and under enormous pressure – this book will take you on a voyage down into my world. Down into the kelp forests, to the sheer sides of underwater volcanoes, down into the crushing, pitch-black depths and into the beating heart of Planet Earth."