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Mapping Antarctica : a five hundred year record of discovery
- Title
- Mapping Antarctica : a five hundred year record of discovery / Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma.
- Author
- Clancy, Robert
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Publishing, [2014]
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- Description
- xx, 328 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story - one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.
- Series Statement
- Springer Praxis books
- Uniform Title
- Springer Praxis books
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Arctic and Antarctic regions are not poles apart -- Drivers of discovery -- Antarctica -- the concept : from Ptolemy to Cook -- Antarctica -- the reality : from Cook to the International Geographical Congress -- Antarctica -- the heroic age : heroes, legends, and land -- Antarctica -- wings over the continent : from Wilkins to war -- Antarctica 1940-1960 : a second world war and a new order of business -- Consolidation of political interest and national mapping programs (1950-2010) -- Antarctic science comes of age : window on the world (1960-2010) -- Atlas maps.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1607
- ISBN
- 9789400743205
- 9400743203
- 9400743211
- 9789400743212
- LCCN
- 2013950739
- OCLC
- 800865101
- Author
- Clancy, Robert, author.
- Title
- Mapping Antarctica : a five hundred year record of discovery / Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma.
- Publisher
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Publishing, [2014]
- Type of Content
- textcartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Springer Praxis booksSpringer Praxis books
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Manning, John, 1937- author.Brolsma, Henk, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1607