Notes
The View from Serendip, a wide-ranging collection of non-fiction essays by Arthur C. Clarke covering subjects such as diving, science and science fiction as well as relationships with other science fiction authors and other personal memoirs.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1983 printing of the Pan Books paperback edition, ISBN 0330256254. Cover illustrator unknown.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
SPECULATIONS ON SPACE, SCIENCE AND THE SEA
together with fragments of an Equatorial Autobiography

'The career of Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most dazzling success stories of the 20th century. He has succeeded in making a career out of science – and becoming one of the world's richest writers.

The film 2001 turned him into a cult figure; his science fiction stories and his prophecies about the future reach an audience bigger than anything H.G. Wells ever dreamed of.

His enthusiasm is so immense that he finds it practically impossible to be dull and his account of his 'continuing love affair' with Sri Lanka, his deep sea diving, his work on the film of 2001 are as absorbing as anything he ever wrote . . . certainly a most revealing document'
-Colin Wilson – Evening News

'The View from Serendip hums with life, offering glimpses of Clarke the Adventurer (both intellectual and physical) that will delight those readers who know him only as a superb popularizer of space science or as one of the best of modern science fiction writers. He gives voice to the romantic side of scientific inquiry'
-New York Times