Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions

by Chris Linder

Book Overview

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards drawing sledges and risking death for scientific knowledge. But polar science has changed drastically over the past century--as Chris Linder shows us,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226482472
• ISBN13: 9780226482477
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.2" x 8.3"