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Dispatches from continent seven : an anthology of Antarctic science
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- Creator
- Rebecca Priestley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Wellington, New Zealand : Awa Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781927249055, 1927249058, 9781927249420, 9781927249437
- OCLC
- ocn941792447
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contributors -- The frozen pages / Gregory O'Brien -- Introduction -- Unkown Land -- Cook circumnavigates the continent / James Cook -- Pickled penguins and barrels of ice / Thaddeus von Bellingshausen -- Drinking wine in Adelie Land / Joseph Dubouzet -- Wilkes among the ice islands / Charles Wilkes -- Fire and ice James / Clark Ross -- The polar captain's wife / Chris Orsman -- The First Antarcticans -- In a sleeping bag beneath the aurora australis / Frederick Cook -- The art and science of sledge travel / Leopold McClintock -- Skinned penguins and bloody seals / Edward Wilson -- Drygalski's balloon ascent / Erich von Drygalski -- Luxuriant vegetation and extensive coasts / Otto Nordenskjold -- Penguin eggs and fried seal / Johan Gunnar Andersson -- Hunting the south magnetic pole / Edgeworth David -- Nematodes, rotifers, water bears and mites / James Murray -- The measure / Alice Miller -- The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- The hooligan cocks of Cape Adare / George Murray Levick -- George Murray Levick and the Adelie penguins / Helen Heath -- Impressions / Robert Falcon Scott -- Geologising on the Beardmore / Robert Falcon Scott -- Ice monsters, growlers and bergy bits / Raymond Priestley -- Byrd makes a meteorological observation / Richard Byrd -- Crabeaters and leopards / Graham Turbott -- Continent for science -- Innocents in the Dry Valleys / Colin Bull -- Birds and mammals of Antarctica / Bernard Stonehouse -- Catching falling stars / William A. Cassidy -- The accidental penguin biologist / Lloyd Spencer Davis -- Food chain / Bill Manhire -- Krill / David G. Campbell -- Small fry / Ashleigh Young -- An average day in the deep field / John Long -- Water, ice and stone / Bill Green -- The lakes of Mars / Chris Orsman -- Katabatic winds / Stephanie Shipp -- Inside the emperor penguin egg / Gavin Francis -- The mountains under the ice / Robin Bell -- Antarctic time capsule / Michael S. Becker -- Neutrinos on ice / Katie Mulrey -- Global barometer -- Earth sans sunscreen / Jonathan Shanklin -- Waiting for the polar sunrise / Rhian Salmon -- Life under ice / Paul Dayton and Simon Thrush -- Thirty-six million years in Antarctica / Rob Dunbar -- Hermaphrodite butterflies and acid seas / James McClintock -- Fishing in Antarctica / Victoria Metcalf -- Sea ice and polynyas / Helen Bostock -- A page from the ice diary / Nancy Bertler -- What do seals want for Christmas? / Regina Eisert -- March of the king crabs / Kathryn Smith