The Silent Landscape The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger
| Author/creator | Corfield, R. M. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Joseph Henry Press [Imprint] Washington : National Academies Press |
| Description | 304 p. ill 08.500 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation "Sailing three-and-a-half years and 69,000 nautical miles, the story of Challenger is the stuff of legend. Scientists and crew alike braved the stifling heat of the tropics for months on end only to suffer the stupefying cold of the Antarctic, enduring danger on the high seas, and risking their very lives in the pursuit of knowledge. As the first sea voyage devoted exclusively to science, the Challenger expedition is perhaps the greatest oceanographic mission of all time, surpassing even Charles Darwin's celebrated passage aboard HMS Beagle. Indeed, among the more important objectives set before the crew of Challenger was the mandate to gather the evidence necessary to prove or refute Darwin's daring new theory of evolution. Put simply, many saw the Challenger expedition as the ultimate battle between God and science." "The undertaking was nothing short of a roaring success. Challenger dredged up hundreds of samples from the seafloor and mapped enormous areas of undersea terrain. Most startling of all, though, was the revelation that the ocean was much more than a barren graveyard that mutely reflected Earth's past - it was not a silent landscape after all. Instead, these intrepid explorers found a gloriously complex ecosystem teeming with life, an ecological and geological treasure trove that could scarcely be imagined from a landlocked perspective."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003012239 |
| ISBN | 9780309089043 |
| ISBN | 0309089042 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780309089043 |
| Stock number | 00017961 |
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