Land of Wondrous Cold (eBook)

The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice

Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Autor)

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2020
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20168-9 (ISBN)

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A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica's glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers-James Ross, Dumont D'Urville, and Charles Wilkes-laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth's climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of its Victorian forerunners, Gillen D'Arcy Wood describes Antarctica's role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations.A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach-an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 24 b/w illus. 12 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • abyssal zone • Adventure • adventurers • A History of Antarctic Science • Alexander von Humboldt • Amundsen Sea • Antarctic • Antarctic Circle • Antarctic Circumpolar Current • Antarctic Cold Reversal • Antarctic Convergence • Antarctic Ice Sheet • Antarctic Peninsula • Antarctic Plate • Antarctic sea ice • apex predator • Arctic circle • astrolabe • Atlantic Ocean • Atmospheric circulation • Bay of Whales • Benjamin Morrell • beringia • Cape Adare • Captain Ahab • Charles Erskine • Charles Wilkes • Climate • climate change • Climate of Antarctica • Clime • cold climate • Continent • continental crust • Continental Drift • Continental fragment • Continental margin • Continental Shelf • Cretaceous • crustacean • deep history • Deep sea • Deglaciation • Desk • Diatom • Dip circle • disaster • Douglas Mawson • Drake Passage • Drummond Matthews • Durvillaea antarctica • Earth's Magnetic Field • Earth system science • East Antarctica • East Antarctic ice sheet • ecosystem • Edgeworth David • Edward Sabine • Emperor Penguin • Environment • Eocene • Erebus • Ernest Shackleton • Erosion • Expedition • exploration • explorers club • extreme environment • Extreme weather • Fimbul Ice Shelf • Fjord • foraminifera • Fossil fuel • Francis Crozier • Fresh water • Frost • G. E. Fogg • Geographers • geologist • Geology • Glaciation • Glacier • glaciology • global warming • Great Ice Barrier • Great Plains • Herman Viola • Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration • Hollow earth • ICE • Ice Age • Iceberg • ice cap • Ice dune • Ice field • ice mountain • Ice Mountain (water) • ice pack • ice sheet • ice shelf • Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition • Indian Ocean • instability • In the Kingdom of Ice • James Clark Ross • James Weddell • John Franklin • Jurassic • Katabatic wind • Kerguelen Islands • La Grand Coupure • Long Depression • Louise Arner Boyd • Magnetite • Magnificent Voyagers • Marine Biology • Massif • McMurdo Dry Valleys • McMurdo Sound • meal • Melting • Meltwater • meteorology • Metric system • midshipman • Miocene • Mount Erebus • National Geographic • New Guinea • North America • Northern Hemisphere • North Magnetic Pole • ocean current • Ocean Drilling Program • Oilcloth • Oligocene • Open Polar Sea • Pacific Ocean • Paleoclimatology • Paleolithic • Paleomagnetism • Patagonia • Penguin • plateau • Plate Tectonics • Pliocene • polar exploration • Polar front • Polar ice cap • Polar regions of Earth • Polar Research • Polar Storm • Polar Vortex • Polar wind • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research • Princeton University Press • Pyrosome • raw material • Recession • Roald Amundsen • Robert Bindschadler • Robert Falcon Scott • Ross expedition • Ross Ice Shelf • Ross Sea • Royal Geographical Society • Royal Society • Scientist • Scott Polar Research Institute • scurvy • Sea • sea ice • sea level • Sea Level Rise • Sealskin • Seaweed • sedimentary core • Seymour Island • Smithsonian • Snow Dome (Canada) • Snow petrel • South America • Southeast Asia • southern hemisphere • Southern Ocean • South Magnetic Pole • South Pole • South Seas (genre) • South Shetland Islands • squall • Storm • Strait of Magellan • Tasmania • Terra Australis • Terra Nova • Terror • the Barrier • the Big Break • The Blue Marble • The Spiritual History of Ice • The Two Cultures • The Worst Journey in the World • Thwaites Glacier • Tierra del Fuego • Toulon • Transantarctic mountains • Travelogue • Tundra • Twenty Years Before the Mast • Typee • United States Exploring Expedition • Vegetable • Vibration • Victoria Land • Victorian Era • Vincennes • volcano • warfare • Weather • weathering • Weddell Sea • West Antarctica • West Antarctic Ice Sheet • whale oil • whaling • Wilkes Land • year • Zélée
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20168-4 / 0691201684
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20168-9 / 9780691201689