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- catalog abstract "The Southern Ocean - a vast belt of cold, fertile water that laps at Antarctica's icy shores - offers a cold shoulder to the casual visitor. Historically only those with mechanical might or fiercely strong wills have penetrated its forbidding bounds to explore or exploit. It is little understood and written about even less. Enter James Gorman, whose trenchant analysis and crystalline prose part the veil that hides the Southern Ocean from our understanding and appreciation. This ocean is a crucible in which world weather is made, as it empties enormous amounts of heat into the atmosphere from the warm water other oceans feed it. It is home to an elegantly simple ecosystem, where penguins predominate and many species of whale have thrived and died. It is also the stage upon which have played some of the most heroic and unnerving spectacles of human history, from Captain Cook's voyages of discovery to the whaling industry's voyages of destruction. Gorman casts a brilliant light on the islands that dot the Southern Ocean and the continent it surrounds. He visits McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast, equal parts military outpost and college campus, where Antarctic survival courses are a favorite extracurricular activity. He even strikes out into the continent's interior - the world's driest as well as coldest terrain - to retrace the journeys of Amundsen, Scott, and other less well known but no less intrepid explorers. Throughout Ocean Enough and Time, Gorman blends historical anecdote, scientific revelation, limpid elegies on a stark, natural beauty, and personal epiphany into a captivating chronicle, one that merits comparison with Ian Frazier's Great Plains for the eloquence with which it evokes and celebrates a grand place.".
- catalog contributor b7887928.
- catalog coverage "Antarctic Ocean.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Gorman casts a brilliant light on the islands that dot the Southern Ocean and the continent it surrounds. He visits McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast, equal parts military outpost and college campus, where Antarctic survival courses are a favorite extracurricular activity. He even strikes out into the continent's interior - the world's driest as well as coldest terrain - to retrace the journeys of Amundsen, Scott, and other less well known but no less intrepid explorers. Throughout Ocean Enough and Time, Gorman blends historical anecdote, scientific revelation, limpid elegies on a stark, natural beauty, and personal epiphany into a captivating chronicle, one that merits comparison with Ian Frazier's Great Plains for the eloquence with which it evokes and celebrates a grand place.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and index.".
- catalog description "The Southern Ocean - a vast belt of cold, fertile water that laps at Antarctica's icy shores - offers a cold shoulder to the casual visitor. Historically only those with mechanical might or fiercely strong wills have penetrated its forbidding bounds to explore or exploit. It is little understood and written about even less. Enter James Gorman, whose trenchant analysis and crystalline prose part the veil that hides the Southern Ocean from our understanding and appreciation. This ocean is a crucible in which world weather is made, as it empties enormous amounts of heat into the atmosphere from the warm water other oceans feed it. It is home to an elegantly simple ecosystem, where penguins predominate and many species of whale have thrived and died. It is also the stage upon which have played some of the most heroic and unnerving spectacles of human history, from Captain Cook's voyages of discovery to the whaling industry's voyages of destruction.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 190 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Ocean enough and time.".
- catalog identifier "0060166207 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ocean enough and time.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins,".
- catalog relation "Ocean enough and time.".
- catalog spatial "Antarctic Ocean.".
- catalog subject "551.46/9 20".
- catalog subject "GC461 .G68 1995".
- catalog title "Ocean enough and time : discovering the waters around Antarctica / James Gorman.".
- catalog type "text".