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Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica

Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica

Roberts, Leslie Carol

Paperback

Arctic HistoryTravel GeneralExploration

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803240015
ISBN13: 9780803240018
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jul 1 2012
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.27 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
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, a kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, renders an impression, both vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land we call Antarctica, and its effect on us. It balances 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. Roberts describes in detail the town of Lyttelton, New Zealand--the Cape Canaveral for so many great Antarctic expeditions--prior to the devastating 2011 earthquake in which it was the epicenter.

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