Below the Convegence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839 - Alan Gurney

Below the Convegence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839

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Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
1997
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-03949-8 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
The image of a huge southern continent has haunted the imaginations of geographers throughout history. In 1773 Captain Cook laid the theory to rest. This book tells the story of British, American and Russian expeditions, from 1699 to 1839, in search of land, profit and prestige.
A remarkable account of the many explorations to discover the continent long suspected to exist at the South Pole. The tantalizing theory of a huge southern continent, Terra Australis Incognita, had haunted the imaginations of countless geographers throughout history. Not until the second of his great voyages in 1773 did Captain James Cook finally lay the theory to rest. This wonderfully written book tells the story of British, American, and Russian expeditions, from the astronomer Edmond Halley's voyage in the Paramore in 1699, to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 voyage in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, fur, or elephant seals. These were voyages for science, national prestige, and profit. Life was incredibly harsh: crews had poor provisions and inadequate clothing and were constantly threatened by scurvy. Often they had to make their own charts as they sailed in the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean below the Convergence, that sea frontier marking the boundary between the freezing Antarctic waters and the warmer sub-Antarctic seas. These seamen were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant southern land imagined but an inhospitable expanse of rock and ice, ringed by pack ice and icebergsAntarctica.

Alan Gurney was a former yacht designer and photographer. His books include Compass, The Race to the White Continent, and Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica: 1699–1839.

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 244 mm
Gewicht 650 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-393-03949-8 / 0393039498
ISBN-13 978-0-393-03949-8 / 9780393039498
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