Author: Isobel BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709129653
Category : Macquarie Island (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Shores of Macquarie Island
Author: Isobel BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709129653
Category : Macquarie Island (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Hostile Beauty
Author: Alistair DermerPublisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855040
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
There are few places today that are truly wild. Macquarie Island is still one such place-a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life. Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants: gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.
Subantarctic Macquarie Island
Author: Patricia SelkirkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.
Guide to the Collections
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Wild Sea
Author: Joy McCannPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022662241X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“This bracing history charts the myths, the exploration, and the inhabitants of the all-too-real and wild circumpolar ocean to our south.” —The Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week 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, Joy 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. Beautifully and powerfully written, Wild Sea will raise a broader awareness and appreciation of the natural and cultural history of this little-known ocean and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change. “A sensitive portrait of a complex ecosystem, from krill to blue whales, and of the ice, winds, and currents that are critical to the circulation of the world’s oceans.” —Harper’s “Wilderness seekers will rejoice in this stirring portrait . . . McCann deftly navigates both natural glories and archival complexities.” —Nature
The Ecology of Seashores
Author: George A. KnoxPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420042637
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The Ecology of Seashores explores the complex shore environment. It covers the ways in which representative species have adapted to life in a constantly changing environment in terms of their interactions, the control of community structure, and how energy and materials are cycled in different ecosystems. Written by an eminent marine biologist,
Scientific Reports
Author: The Home of the Blizzard
Author: Sir Douglas MawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
"This account, so profusely illustrated by the magnificent photographs of Frank Hurley is a classic of Polar literature, describing the first major scientific exploring venture by an Australian beyond their shores. Mawson's lone survival after the fatal tragedy of his two companions (Ninnis and Mertz) was to become the most extraordinary epic of survival in Antarctica. He was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding explorers of the 20th century and ranks high among our national icons" -- abebooks website.
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