Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time (eBook)

The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change

Markus Rex (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-77164-949-0 (ISBN)

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For readers of Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Endurance, and other seafaring adventure stories comes a thrilling account of a 21st-century Arctic mission. A contemporary classic!Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal PassageShow-stopping.Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewThe Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time vividly describes one year aboard the Polarstern, a powerful ice-breaker ship that journeyed deep into the Arctic in 2019, carrying over 100 scientists and crew known as the MOSAiC Expedition. Hailing from across the world, they would become the largest expedition to ever survive a polar winter. Their purpose? To understandand predictthe impacts of climate change on the Arctic.Written by the expeditions leader, the renowned atmospheric scientist Markus Rex, this page-turner reads like a captains log of daily life aboard the Polarstern. Living in one of the most remote, dangerous, and electrifying places on earth, Rex describes incredible sights: polar bears playing with scientific equipment, Christmas parties in the bitter cold, frostbitten scientists, and hair-raising storms that threaten to break the Polarsterns cables and send it flying across the ice. He also reveals breathtaking science from deep inside the sea ice.Filled with sobering, heart-warming, and bone-chilling moments, The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time is a testament to Rexs extraordinary drive to save a precious ecosystem. Its also an ode to a place that has beguiled sailors and explorers for centuries.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: David Suzuki Institute
• Übersetzer: Sarah Pybus
• Zusatzinfo: B&W photos throughout, 8-page colour insert
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Adventure • arctic adventure • arctic adventure books • Arctic history • arctic mission • boat books • books for dad • books for dads • Climate Change Crisis • dad books • Erebus • Explorer • Extreme weather • fathers day books • Father's Day books • fathers day gifts • franklin expedition • frozen in time • gifts for dads • gifts for fathers day • global warming • history lover books • Ice Ghosts • John Geiger • josh young • melting ice cap • Mitchell Zuckoff • Mosaic • MOSAiC Expedition • North Pole • owen beattie • Paul Watson • Polarstern • Sailing • Science • Ship stories • surivival • transpolar drift
• ISBN-10: 1-77164-949-6 / 1771649496
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77164-949-0 / 9781771649490