Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226482472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Science on Ice gives the reader a glimpse into the challenges of conducting field research in the extreme and isolated environments of the Arctic and Antarctic. This book should be mandatory in all schools, careers departments, and polar fanatics’ coffee tables across the globe, and when there, I expect that Linder’s efforts will have more influence on the future of the poles than he could ever have dreamed.". Exciting tales of helicopters, submarines and icebreakers, coupled with emotive personal experiences in the face of adversity serve
Beeghly Library Acquisitions said Five Stars. Great book, timely delivery.
Science on Ice takes readers to the farthest reaches of our planet; science has rarely been more exciting—or inspiring.. But polar science has changed drastically over the past century—as Chris Linder shows us, brilliantly, with Science on Ice.An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adélie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that’s how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards drawing sledges and risk