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Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
Chris Linder
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Description for Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
Hardcover. Shows that Polar science has changed drastically over the past century. This title includes images of the stark polar landscape that alternate with gritty, close-up shots of scientists working in the field, as they gather crucial information about our planet's distant past, and the risks that climate change poses for its future. Num Pages: 288 pages, 157 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QMP; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1278. Four Polar Expeditions. 288 pages, 157 colour plates. Shows that Polar science has changed drastically over the past century. This title includes images of the stark polar landscape that alternate with gritty, close-up shots of scientists working in the field, as they gather crucial information about our planet's distant past, and the risks that climate change poses for its future. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QMP; WTLP. Dimension: 286 x 210 x 23. Weight: 1278.
"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 risking death for scientific knowledge. 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 ... Read more
"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 risking death for scientific knowledge. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226482477
SKU
V9780226482477
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About Chris Linder
Chris Linder is a research associate in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Physical Oceanography Department and a professional freelance photographer.
Reviews for Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
"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. I came away with a new appreciation of both the risks and adventures scientists experience, the creativity and adaptability they must possess to work in difficult conditions, and most of all, the fact that ... Read more