Tag Antarctic exploration

March 1, 2012
in Environmental Studies, Humanities, Science

Special Leap Year Book Giveaway: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains

March 1, 2012
in Environmental Studies, Humanities, Science

“It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the sea.” In January of 1841, British explorer

January 5, 2012
in Environmental Studies, History, Science

Edward J. Larson on the Explorers of the South Pole

January 5, 2012
in Environmental Studies, History, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson, is a riveting biographical and scientific account of Antarctic exploration, restoring these expeditions’