The entire earth and sky : views on Antarctica / Leslie Carol Roberts.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xxxii, 289 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0803216173
- 9780803216174
- 919.89 23
- G870 .R59 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 919.89 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A511063B |
Originally published: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289).
"More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the world." "When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. In the twenty years since then she has shifted to the no less difficult task of saving Antarctica itself, compiling memoirs and stories, learning the biology and geography of the icy land, and documenting her own journey. This book pieces together the tragic and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, interviews with scientists, and the author's personal observations. The result is a remarkable collage that evokes the beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards of a lifelong engagement with the earth's last wilderness. A kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, the book renders an impression, at once vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land and ice we call Antarctica, and its effect on us."--BOOK JACKET.
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