Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
No Customer Reviews
Select Format
Select Condition 
Book Overview
"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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226482472
ISBN13:9780226482477
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:2.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 11.2" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
0 rating
Copyright © 2024 Thriftbooks.com Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information | Cookie Policy | Cookie Preferences | Accessibility Statement
ThriftBooks® and the ThriftBooks® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
ThriftBooks® and the ThriftBooks® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
