Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
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...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/159386 2024-01-14T10:02:21+01:00 Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean McCann, Margarita 258pp application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1885/159386 en_AU eng New South Publishing 1st edition Edition 9781742235738 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/159386 © Joy McCann 2018 https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/wild-sea/ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1023051683 Book ftanucanberra 2023-12-15T09:39:05Z 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. Book Antarc* Antarctica Southern Ocean Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Southern Ocean New Zealand McCann ENVELOPE(-77.617,-77.617,-73.567,-73.567) |
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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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