Monsters of the Sea

About this book

Before underwater cameras, the ocean gave extraordinary stories plenty of room to grow. Sailors reported vast serpents, strange tentacles and creatures that seemed to rise from the deepest water.

John Gibson gathers accounts of marine monsters and considers what known animals or mistaken observations might lie behind them. Natural history and nautical legend meet on the same pages. The book preserves the excitement of a time when enormous regions of the sea remained unexplored and almost any shape might be waiting below the surface.