e-Book The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica download

by Leslie Carol Roberts

ISBN: 0803216173
ISBN13: 978-0803216174
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (October 1, 2008)
Pages: 322
Category: World
Subategory: History

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В When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world

В 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 authorвЂ™s personal observations.

I am Antarctica and Antarctica is me,’ Leslie Carol Roberts wants to cry out, knowing that the famous and forbidding land of penguins, ferocious leopard seals, explorers lucky and not, scientists who shag their way through the months-long winter night (also cooks and drivers and pilots.

When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. Penguins pop up unexpectedly, as do characters like Worsley and Baden.

When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. This book pieces together the tragic and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, interviews with scientists, and the author’s personal observations.

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When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world

The Entire Earth and Sky Views on Antarctica. Worsley wrote books, and I recommend them to all who are interested in tales of the sea and exploration

The Entire Earth and Sky Views on Antarctica. The entire earth and sky : views on Antarctica, Leslie Carol Roberts. Worsley wrote books, and I recommend them to all who are interested in tales of the sea and exploration. He deserves to be elevated to a higher place in the pantheon ofAntarctic and world heroes, for it was Worsley who masterminded and pulled off the greatest small boat journey known to us today.

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.

Comments:

Bukelv

What a wonderful and comprehensive study of our world. This book is so dense, diverse, and beautiful. Every aspect of our world is explored in an easy to grasp format. The reading grips an adult, the illustrations make it child accessible, the depth of coverage makes it a book that invites constant return.

Being a college graduate of 35+ years ago I thought that I may be going a bit overboard in my praise. So I introduced this book to groups of astronomers, archaeologists, and doctors. They all were fascinated. Cool.

So parents, instead of shopping all around for a book that may interest one or another child's curiosity, perhaps you can save a bunch and buy this book. It will spark interest in people of many inclinations and maybe point out a possible life path.

Kelezel

Beautifully written - images of the white continent play like a symphony in your mind as you read. Roberts taps into the true beauty of vast emptiness . She paints a revealing picture of what is like to be a human in an environment where the only living creatures have had millennia to adapt.

Voodoolkree

I love this book! I had checked it out of the library and had to have my own copy to keep at home: full of beautiful photos and lots of interesting information.

DEAD-SHOT

This is such a beautiful and comprehensive book. I highly recommend it for both the informative and aesthetic value it provides.

Sataxe

Great!

BoberMod

Very good reference book but also easily read like a story as it is set up in chronological order. The pictures and diagrams are great and keep the text from becoming dry or boring.

DART-SKRIMER

Better than most coffee-table size nature/science books. This one is not text-heavy, but still very instructive. Well conceived.

Very nice book with a lot of info and even though I bought it used it's in a very good shape.