Land of Wondrous Cold : : The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice / / Gillen D’Arcy Wood.
A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century with scientific breakthroughs of the modern eraAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempte...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 24 b/w illus. 12 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Timeline
- A Note on Measurements
- Introduction. Our Glacial Earth
- PART ONE. BEGINNINGS
- Chapter 1. The Race Is Joined
- Interlude: The Hollow Earth
- Chapter 2. Joseph Hooker Travels through Time
- Interlude: The Ghost Continent
- Chapter 3. In the Land of Fire
- Interlude: The American Climate Warriors
- PART TWO. TRIALS
- Chapter 4. D’Urville Battles the Pack
- Interlude: Ice Station Weddell
- Chapter 5. The Voyage of the Flying Fish
- Interlude: The Stormy Petrel
- Chapter 6. Madame D’Urville’s Letter
- Chapter 7. Ross Falls Behind
- PART THREE. TRIUMPH
- Chapter 8. Seas of Grass
- Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence
- Chapter 9. How the Adélie Penguin Got Its Name
- Interlude: Anthropornis nordenskjoldi
- Chapter 10. Wilkes Discovers a Continent
- Interlude: The Hurricane Coast
- Chapter 11. Message in a Bottle
- Interlude: The Magnetic Crusaders
- Chapter 12. Ross in Wonderland
- Chapter 13. Homecoming
- Postlude. Last Ice
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index