Fifteen million years in Antarctica / Rebecca Priestley.
By: Priestley, Rebecca
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TextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781776562244; 1776562240.Subject(s): Priestley, Rebecca, 1967- -- Travel -- Antarctica | Geologists -- New Zealand | Scientists -- New Zealand | Antarctica -- Research -- New ZealandDDC classification: 919.8904092 Summary: "Fifteen million years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour Priestly reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place?"-- Dust jacket.
| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Fiction | Hakeke Street Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 998.9 PRI | Available | T00824335 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Fifteen million years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour Priestly reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place?"--Dust jacket.
"Fifteen million years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour Priestly reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place?"-- Dust jacket.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- I Antarctica 2011
- Big White Cold Awesome (p. 13)
- II Deep Time
- Antarctic Dream (p. 83)
- Deep Time (p. 110)
- III Antarctica 2014
- Landscape of Loss (p. 117)
- Friis Hills Evolution (p. 159)
- IV Wellington 2017
- Anatomy of a Sediment Core (p. 163)
- Warning: Sea Levels Can Rise Quickly (p. 192)
- V Antarctica 2018
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (p. 227)
- Event K217 (p. 253)
- Repeat Offender (p. 265)
- Blizzard (p. 358)
- Author's Note (p. 363)
- Acknowledgements (p. 364)
- Copyright Acknowledgements (p. 366)
- Illustrations (p. 368)
- Select Bibliography (p. 369)
- Index (p. 370)