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Wild Sea de Joy McCann

Wild Sea

Autor Joy McCann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2018
Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded by any landmass, the wild and elusive Southern Ocean reaches from the seasonally-shifting icy continent of Antarctica to the southern coastlines and islands of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. In Wild Sea, Joy McCann interweaves the fascinating environmental and cultural histories of the Southern Ocean--long neglected by writers and historians--drawing from sea captains' journals, whalers' log books, explorers' letters, scientific reports, ancient beliefs, and her own voyage of discovery. In a hybrid space where science, technology, culture, imagination and myth converge, Wild Sea explores a little-known ocean and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781742235738
ISBN-10: 1742235735
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: NewSouth Publishing

Descriere

Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded by any landmass, the Southern Ocean reaches from the seasonally-shifting ice continent of Antarctica to the southern coastlines and islands of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. Joy McCann interweaves the fascinating environmental and cultural histories of the Southern Ocean.

Notă biografică

Joy McCann is a historian specializing in environmental and cultural history. She is based at the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University’s School of History and has worked as a public historian, researcher, and curator in the cultural heritage, museum, and library sectors. She is currently writing a history of Australians in Antarctica for the National Library of Australia.

Cuprins

Maps
Southern Ocean
Australia and New Zealand
 
Prelude
 
1 | Ocean
2 | Wind
3 | Coast
4 | Ice
5 | Deep
6 | Current
7 | Convergence
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
 

Recenzii

“McCann has written a brief but delightfully comprehensive history of the Southern Ocean. . . . [She] successfully conveys the timeless mystery of the Southern Ocean and how it has figured in human history, adding a poet’s touch to many passages.”

“Wilderness seekers will rejoice in this stirring portrait. . . . McCann deftly navigates both natural glories and archival complexities."

“A sensitive portrait of a complex ecosystem, from krill to blue whales, and of the ice, winds, and currents that are critical to the circulation of the world’s oceans.”

"This bracing history charts the myths, the exploration, and the inhabitants of the all-too-real and wild circumpolar ocean to our south. It's a vast and potentially unwieldy subject that McCann deftly distills to its essentials, from the ocean's winds and icy currents to the krill that sustain its depths and the albatross that cruise its skies."

"A hymn to connection and wonder, and a recognition of the myriad ways in which the Southern Ocean touches all of us."

"Wild Sea is a well-researched, informative, and easy-to-digest book built on a vast archive of whaler’s logbooks, scientific reports, stories, and myths to tell the environmental and cultural history of the mysterious Southern Ocean...a highly recommended introduction to anyone interested in the history of the Southern Ocean, and it will ultimately raise a broader awareness of the vulnerability of its inhabitants, from tiny krill to majestic whales and albatrosses, and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change."