Description
We at Nerdebutikken love Pia. As a child, she could lie for hours on the jetty and admire the life in the sea below her. With the help of her grandfather's field microscope and nature handbook, she explored nature above and below water, and with each thing she learned, new questions arose. Curiosity grew into a passion to understand how life in the great sea has developed. Today, she is an outstanding communicator of life under water.
Pia has visited Andreas's podcast Jøss‽ several times, has been a favorite during the teachers' gathering Naturfagets helter, and hundreds of other meetings with people.
The ocean makes up 99 percent of the area where animals can live on the globe. It was there that life originated, and the species have had to develop under completely different conditions than on land. In The World Under Water you can read about the beautiful, intelligent and fearsome animals in the sea that are the result of evolution's experiments. From the bustling life in the nutrient-rich kelp belt all the way down to the deep-sea plains, where a few species have specialized in surviving - in total darkness and under enormous pressure.
Pia's goal with this book is to take you on a journey into her world. Down into the kelp forest, to the precipitous sides of underwater volcanoes, down into the crushing, pitch-black depths and into the beating heart of the globe.
"A playful and very funny piece of popular science that can make the most inveterate couch potato look at nature with new eyes." says Leif Bull, Dagens Næringsliv. And he continues: "In The World Under Water, she shows off the strange diversity found in the sea, divided into chapters such as 'Go home, evolution, you're drunk' and 'Natural Christmas tree lighting'. In other words, the tone is cheerful and light, and it is all in all a lot of fun to read Pia Ve Dahlen's distinctive mix of detailed specialist knowledge, humor shaped by memes and pop culture, and bubbling enthusiasm.