David Day

Antarctica

What Everyone Needs to Know®. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,0 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780190641313
15,90 €
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214 Seiten
Mai 2019
Oxford University Press, USA

An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world's melting continent, Antarctica

David Day has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, he University of Aberdeen, and the Center for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others and the award-winning Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia.

- 1. First Contact - 2. The Race for Antarctica - 3. Imperial Rivalry - 4. War on the Ice - 5. Science and Discovery - 6. Profiting from Antarctica - 7. The Antarctic Treaty - 8. Global Warming - 9. The Future of Antarctica