Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer

by Kathleen Crane

Book Overview

Sea Legs is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As research doors in the United States closed during the 1980s, Crane charted her scientific future with the Europeans and with scientists from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813342856
• ISBN13: 9780813342856
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"