Publisher's Note In 'The Octopus's Garden', Cindy Lee Van Dover introduces the general reader to the life-forms that scientists have only recently discovered thriving 9 to 12,000 feet below sea level. These remarkable organisms live in hydrothermal vents--geysers that spew 600-degree fluid and support an ecosystem utterly unlike anything else on the planet.
Industry Reviews "A simply told but richly evocative scientific memoir by one of the pioneers of the last frontier on Earth." Kimball