Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957
ISBN-13:
9780870814938
ISBN-10:
0870814931
Author:
John Berendt
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Univ Pr of Colorado
Format:
Hardcover
428 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780870814938
ISBN-10:
0870814931
Author:
John Berendt
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Univ Pr of Colorado
Format:
Hardcover
428 pages
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Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957 (ISBN-13: 9780870814938 and ISBN-10: 0870814931), written by authors
John Berendt, was published by Univ Pr of Colorado in 1998.
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"Adventures in the Antarctic only happen when someone makes a mistake.”
?From the Preface
Nine civilians and thirty Navy men lived beneath the snow together, and intense personal conflicts arose during the dark Antarctic winter of 1957. Little outside contact was available to ease the tension, with no mail delivery and only occasional radio contact with families back home. The author describes the emotional stress of the living situation, along with details of his parties’ explorations of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf system during the summers of 1957 and 1958. Along the hazardous 1,300-mile traverse in two Sno-Cats, the field party measured ice thickness and snow accumulation as part of an international effort to determine the balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, and made the first geological observations of the spectacular Dufek Massif in the then-unexplored Pensacola Mountains. Behrendt also draws upon his forty years of continual participation in Antarctic research to explain the changes in scientific activities and environmental awareness in Antarctica today.
Including photos, maps, and a glossary identifying various forms of ice, Innocents on the Ice is a fascinating combination of the diary of a young graduate student and the reflections of the accomplished scientist he became.
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