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Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher: Montréal : Libre Expression ISBN: 9782891118262 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 522
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Les comparaisons avec Michener et Clancy que nous fournit l'éditeur n'empêchent pas l'originalité de cet écrivain qui fait à peine de la science-fiction, plutôt de l'anticipation à brève échéance, avec cette équipe aventurière du côté du continent gelé avec des groupes tant spéculateurs qu'écologiques.
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher: Montréal : Libre Expression ISBN: 9782891118262 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 522
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Les comparaisons avec Michener et Clancy que nous fournit l'éditeur n'empêchent pas l'originalité de cet écrivain qui fait à peine de la science-fiction, plutôt de l'anticipation à brève échéance, avec cette équipe aventurière du côté du continent gelé avec des groupes tant spéculateurs qu'écologiques.
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553574027 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 673
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The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. “Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole. Praise for Antarctica “Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.”—People “[Antarctica] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world, Antarctica—both the book and the continent—will become part of the reader's interior landscape.”—The Washington Post Book World “The epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn’t give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here.”—Interzone “Antarctica will take your breath away.”—Associated Press “A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.”—Publishers Weekly “Passionate, informed...vastly entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews “Robinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author: R. L. Oliver Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521258367 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 722
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The fourth international symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences took place in Adelaide, South Australia during the week 16-20 August 1982. This volume contains a record of the centenary activities celebrating Sir Douglas Mawson and the one hundred and seventy-four papers that were presented by delegates for discussion over the five days. Sir Douglas Mawson was part of the first team to reach the magnetic South Pole, a leading geologist and scientific figure during the heroic age of of antarctic exploration. The papers presented during the symposium were divided into fifteen categories covering east and west Antarctica, marine, land and glacial geology, plate tectonics, islands, peninsulas, climatic change and Precambrian and Cenozoic era activity. The two hundred persons from sixteen countries who attended the symposium brought together a wide range of the most current expertise and research to share, of which this volume provides a record.
Author: D. W. H. Walton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110700392X Category : Antarctica Languages : en Pages : 355
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A dramatically illustrated book, by leading international scientists, which describes Antarctica's central role in global scientific research.
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher: ISBN: 9782258050211 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 522
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En ce début de XXIe siècle, l'Antarctique, dernière grande étendue inviolée de la planète, est en passe de devenir un champ de bataille. Si les chercheurs de toutes disciplines continuent de fréquenter la base américaine de McMurdo, ils y croisent désormais des visiteurs inattendus : groupes de riches touristes épris d'aventures extrêmes marchant sur les traces des hardis explorateurs des siècles passés, mais aussi " têtes chercheuses " des firmes multinationales. L'essentiel des ressources pétrolifères mondiales étant taries, les entreprises convoitent les richesses enfouies dons le sous-sol de la banquise, n'hésitant pas à dépenser des millions de dollars pour empêcher la reconduction du traité qui réservait le sixième continent aux recherches scientifiques. L'Antarctique est-il à vendre ? Pour certains écologistes radicaux, il n'en est pas question, quitte à recourir, pour écarter ce péril, à des interventions musclées. Sans pertes en vies humaines, si possible. Mais, dans l'Antarctique, la moindre action peut avoir des effets dévastateurs. Après le triomphe de sa trilogie martienne, couronnée par les prix de science-fiction les plus prestigieux, Kim Stanley Robinson s'attaque avec sa précision et son exhaustivité coutumières à deux sujets d'une actualité brûlante : le réchauffement de la planète et l'exploitation sauvage de ses ressources. Deux nuisances qui, en Antarctique plus qu'ailleurs, risquent d'entraîner de tragiques conséquences.
Author: Dian Olson Belanger Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 1607320673 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 516
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“A comprehensive and lively book about the people and events that transformed Antarctica into an international laboratory for science.”—Raimund E. Goerler, Chief Archivist/Byrd Polar Research Center of The Ohio State University In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice. In the tense 1950s, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S. scientists, maintained by the Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, came together in Antarctica with counterparts from eleven other countries to participate in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). On July 1, 1957, they began systematic, simultaneous scientific observations of the south-polar ice and atmosphere. Their collaborative success over eighteen months inspired the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which formalized their peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge. Still building on the achievements of the individuals and distrustful nations thrown together by the IGY from mutually wary military, scientific, and political cultures, science prospers today and peace endures. Belanger draws from interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official records to weave together the first thorough study of the dawn of Antarctica’s scientific age. Deep Freeze offers absorbing reading for those who have ventured onto Antarctic ice and those who dream of it, as well as historians, scientists, and policy makers. “[A] highly informative and readable narrative account of perhaps the single most striking international scientific endeavor of the twentieth century.” —The Polar Record “Deep Freeze, based on countless interviews and painstaking research, is a timely and gripping account.” —John C. Behrendt, author of Innocents on the Ice
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Author: R. L. Oliver
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Author: D. W. H. Walton
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Author: Dian Olson Belanger
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Polar Programs
Author: Paul Arthur Berkman