Fathoming the Ocean : : The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea / / 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 polit...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle --   |t Chapter One. Fathoming the Fathomless --   |t Chapter Two. The Undiscovered Country --   |t Chapter Three. Soundings --   |t Chapter Four. A Sea Breeze --   |t Chapter Five. Dredging the Moon --   |t Chapter Six. Small World --   |t Epilogue --   |t Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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