Book ID: CBB522874912

Wild Sea : A History of the Southern Ocean (2018)

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McCann, Joy (Author)


NewSouth Books


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

Unlike the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans with their long maritime histories, little is known about the Southern Ocean. This book takes readers beyond the familiar heroic narratives of polar exploration to explore the nature of this stormy circumpolar ocean and its place in Western and Indigenous histories. Drawing from a vast archive of charts and maps, sea captains’ journals, whalers’ log books, missionaries’ correspondence, voyagers’ letters, scientific reports, stories, myths, and her own experiences, McCann embarks on a voyage of discovery across its surfaces and into its depths, revealing its distinctive physical and biological processes as well as the people, species, events, and ideas that have shaped our perceptions of it. The result is both a global story of changing scientific knowledge about oceans and their vulnerability to human actions and a local one, showing how the Southern Ocean has defined and sustained southern environments and people over time.

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Review Rohan Howitt (2018) Review of "Wild Sea : A History of the Southern Ocean". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 58-59). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fu, Lee-Lueng
Campanella, Sara
Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez
Anthony, Patrick
Jessica Lehman
Mentz, Steve
Concepts
Oceans and seas
Oceanography
Marine biology
Maritime science
Marine ecology
Environmental history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Early modern
21st century
16th century
Places
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Switzerland
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
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