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Author : John Horace Parry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520042379
Author : Helen M Rozwadowski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674266889
“[An] amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography” (Publishers Weekly). In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities?in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests?from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography?origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space. “Rozwadowski greatly expands our own understanding, all while telling a story that is original, wide-ranging, and illuminating.” —Margaret Deacon, Southampton Oceanography Centre, author of Science and the Sea: The Origins of Oceanography “Required reading for anyone wanting to understand how the oceans have come to play the role that they do in Western knowledge.” —Eric L. Mills, Dalhousie University and author of Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960 “Chronicles the birth of deep-sea oceanography, from early observations by Benjamin Franklin to the voyage of HMS Challenger in the 1870s. [Rozwadowski] weaves a rich narrative from the world of renowned as well as lesser-known oceanographers.” —Nature
Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066383
Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.
Author : Julian Anthony Koslow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:X030104040
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Author : Frank Boott Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020525986
Author : Gary Kinder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781555847968
“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
Author : Courtney Acampora
Publisher : Silver Dolphin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684128013
Bring real-life ocean scenes to life with more than 400 stickers! From bustling tide pools to the colorful coral reefs, get ready for a hands-on adventure in Discovery Real Life Sticker Book: Ocean! This book is chock full of more than 400 reusable stickers featuring a variety of ocean creatures. The glossy, photographic scenes include ocean habitats such as the open ocean, rocky shore, icy waters, and much more. Future oceanographers will find hours of entertainment filling the ocean scenes with stickers!
Author : Aaron Hirsh
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429947930
A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature—and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they come upon a bay of dazzling beauty and richness. But as the group pursues various threads of investigation—ecological and evolutionary studies of the sea, the desert, and their various species of animals and plants; the stories of local villagers; the journals of conquistadors and explorers—they recognize that the bay, spectacular and pristine though it seems, is but a ghost of what it once was. Life in the Sea of Cortez, they realize, has been reshaped by complex human ideas and decisions—the laws and economics of fishing, property, and water; the dreams of developers and the fantasies of tourists seeking the wild; even efforts to retrieve species from the brink of extinction—all of which have caused dramatic upheavals in the ecosystem. It is a painful realization, but the students discover a way forward. After weathering a hurricane and encountering a rare whale in its wake, they come to see that the bay's best chance of recovery may in fact reside in our own human stories, which can weave a compelling memory of the place. Glimpsing the intricate and ever-shifting web of human connections with the Sea of Cortez, the students comprehend anew their own place in the natural world—suspended between past and future, teetering between abundance and loss. The redemption in their difficult realization is that as they find their places in a profoundly altered environment, they also recognize their roles in the path ahead, and ultimately come to see one another, and themselves, in a new light. In Telling Our Way to the Sea, Hirsh's voice resounds with compassionate humanity, capturing the complex beauty of both the marine world he explores and the people he explores it with. Vibrantly alive with sensitivity and nuance, Telling Our Way to the Sea transcends its genre to become literature.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Ocean Studies Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309172578
This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field's progress. Many of the individuals who participated in the exciting discoveries in biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics describe in the book how the discoveries were made possible by combinations of insightful individuals, new technology, and in some cases, serendipity. In addition to describing the advance of ocean science, the book examines the institutional structures and technology that made the advances possible and presents visions of the field's future. This book is the first-ever documentation of the history of NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, how the structure of the division evolved to its present form, and the individuals who have been responsible for ocean sciences at NSF as "rotators" and career staff over the past 50 years.
Author : M. B. Synge
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465544728
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440649103
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Author : Courtney Acampora
Publisher : Silver Dolphin Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684128242
Learn about the world of pets in this sticker and activity book! Learn all about pets while completing the activities and decorating sticker scenes in Discovery Real Life Sticker and Activity Book: Pets! This book is full of activity pages, including mazes, word searches, doodling, coloring, and more. After reading fun facts and fascinating information, children can use the more than 400 stickers to decorate the photographic sticker scenes. From pets big, small, furry, or scaly, children will love learning about the wonderful world of pets in this interactive sticker and activity book.
Author : Robert D. Ballard,Malcolm McConnell
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ocean travel
ISBN : UCSD:31822032365249
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Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Navigation
ISBN : 9780199934980
"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--
Author : Pippa Goodhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910611085
