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Trevor Norton

    Emeritný profesor Trevor Norton je oceňovaný autor, ktorý sa hlboko zaoberá ekologickými témami. Jeho práca skúma zložité vzťahy v prírodnom svete a často sa zameriava na morský život. Nortonov štýl je charakteristický svojou jasnosťou a schopnosťou sprístupniť zložité vedecké koncepty širokému publiku. Jeho písanie ponúka pútavejší pohľad na prírodu a podčiarkuje dôležitosť jej pochopenia a ochrany.

    Trevor Norton
    Imagination and a Pile of Junk
    Reflections On A Summer Sea
    Underwater to Get out of the Rain
    Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth
    Stars Beneath The Sea
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    • Stars Beneath The Sea

      • 288 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania
      4,3(13)Ohodnotiť

      He ascended from a depth of 200 feet without breathing equipment to see if his lungs would burst, then studied the effects of underwater explosions by standing closer and closer until shattered by the blast. schovat popis

      Stars Beneath The Sea
    • Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

      • 404 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      A celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.

      Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth
    • Underwater to Get out of the Rain

      • 208 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      This is the beautifully told tale of Norton's growing love of the sea, from family holidays in Whitley Bay as a boy, to his first over zealous attempts at diving.

      Underwater to Get out of the Rain
    • Reflections On A Summer Sea

      • 310 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania
      3,7(29)Ohodnotiť

      A true story of a group of talented ecologists who, as a hobby, spent forty summers at their privately owned field laboratory in a beautiful corner of south-west Ireland.

      Reflections On A Summer Sea
    • Imagination and a Pile of Junk

      • 448 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      'Norton writes with wit and a fine eye for the poetry in the scientific world...funny and gripping.' The Guardian

      Imagination and a Pile of Junk