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oapen-20.500.12657-247342023-08-17T12:41:40Z A Memory of Ice Truswell, Elizabeth Antarctica autobiography palaeontology travel bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MT Other land areas::1MTS Antarctica bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGT Biography: science, technology & medicine::BGTA Autobiography: science, technology & medicine bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RB Earth sciences::RBX Palaeontology "In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science." 2019-09-11 13:39:51 2020-04-01T10:07:54Z 2020-04-01T10:07:54Z 2019 book 1005377 OCN: 1126140573 9781760462949 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24734 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International amemoryofice.pdf https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/memory-ice ANU Press 10.22459/MI.2019 10.22459/MI.2019 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760462949 246 open access
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"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs.
A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present.
The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science."
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