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Fire in the Sea : Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep / David A. McKee, with Larry J. Hyde, Michael Barrett, Jennifer Hardell, and Mark Anderson.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKee, David A., 1947- author.
- Anderson, Mark (Mark Wayne), author.
- Hardell, Jennifer, author.
- Barrett, Michael (Biologist), author.
- Hyde, Larry J., author.
- Series:
- Gulf Coast books ; no. 25.
- Gulf Coast books ; number twenty-five
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Conservation and restoration.
- Painting.
- Biology in art.
- Deep-sea fishes--Pictorial works.
- Deep-sea fishes.
- Deep-sea fishes--Classification.
- Bioluminescence.
- Marine artists--Texas--Biography.
- Marine artists.
- Marine biologists--Texas--Biography.
- Marine biologists.
- Compton, Henry, 1928-2005.
- Compton, Henry.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters.Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photogra
- Contents:
- Life in the deep sea
- Bioluminescence
- Hank Compton
- The art of Hank Compton / Mark Anderson
- Fire in the sea
- Appendix: Digitizing the artwork / Larry J. Hyde.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Anderson, Mark (Mark Wayne). Art of Hank Compton.
- Compton, Henry, 1928-2005. Fire in the sea.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-106-1
- OCLC:
- 880409301
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