The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691233246ISBN-10:691233241UPC:9780691233246Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, History, Global Warming & Climate ChangeBook Topic:OceanographySize:8.50 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCEZYW1VZE
A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years
In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light for the first time on the mysteries of the deep sea. For the next four years, Challenger's naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691233246ISBN-10:691233241UPC:9780691233246Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, History, Global Warming & Climate ChangeBook Topic:OceanographySize:8.50 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCEZYW1VZE
Gillen D'Arcy Wood is the Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World and Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice (both Princeton).
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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