Trevor Norton: 4 books

Book cover of Underwater to Get Out of the Rain

Underwater to Get Out of the Rain

A Love Affair With the Sea

by Trevor Norton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007

On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans, and the eccentric characters who work, study,...
Book cover of Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Imagination and a Pile of Junk

A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

by Trevor Norton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday Times Trevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix...
Book cover of Reflections On A Summer Sea
by Trevor Norton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010

This is the funny and touching story of a menagerie of eccentric and talented ecologists who, mainly as a hobby, spent forty summers at Lough Ine, a stunning marine lough in a corner of Ireland, where myths seep from the ground like will o' the wisps and, in one of the most unlikely projects in the...
Book cover of Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation
by Trevor Norton
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012

A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind. Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to “never experiment on an animal if a man will do” and “never...
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