Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent / William L. Fox.
Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent / William L. Fox.
Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent / William L. Fox.
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Publisher
San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2005.
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919.8904/174
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 312 p., [36] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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. O...
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Publisher
San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2005.
Place of Publication
Texas
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"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 underst...
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Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent / William L. Fox.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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919.8904/174
Record Identifier
74VKmbq3x7Xl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmbq3x7Xl
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ISBN
9781595340153 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1595340157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
919.8904
MMS ID
991020689579702626
