Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent / William L. Fox
- Bib ID:
- 3641156
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fox, William L., 1949-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2005
- xv, 312 p., [36] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781595340153
- 1595340157
- Summary:
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"Terra Antarctica traces how humans have attempted to comprehend the most alien place on the planet, a continent that our species is superbly ill-equipped to even imagine, much less live on." "Over a two-year period, Fox assembled the Antarctic's history of artistic, cartographic, and scientific images - both real and imagined - in order to understand how we represent its landscape. He then spent almost three months working on the continent at McMurdo Station, the Ross Sea Region, the Transantarctic Mountains, and the South Pole. The resulting book masterfully expands our understanding of human interaction with a landscape at the frontier of knowledge." "Fox recounts unnerving experiences like being caught in a hurricane on the world's southernmost active volcano and taking frigid hikes past the edge of the mapped world. He details the surprising discoveries of minuscule life forms that contradict our conception of the continent as a heroic void."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The mirror & the eye
- 2. The eye & the mirror
- 3. Transantarctica I
- 4. From chart to art
- 5. The physical plant
- 6. Navigating nature
- 7. Pole
- 8. The history of ice
- 9. Transantarctica II
- 10. Orbiting Antarctica
- 11. On the mountain of myth
- 12. From art to chart
- 13. On the edge of time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Antarctica
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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