Fathoming the Ocean : : The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea / / Helen M. Rozwadowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Rozwadowski, Helen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle --; Chapter One. Fathoming the Fathomless --; Chapter Two. The Undiscovered Country --; Chapter Three. Soundings --; Chapter Four. A Sea Breeze --; Chapter Five. Dredging the Moon --; Chapter Six. Small World --; Epilogue --; Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674042940; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674042940
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Helen M. Rozwadowski.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed--of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction--is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean.