Erebus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis Williams, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Norwich : Story Machine, 2022.

Summary:

In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father's journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across time and space, and experiments in scientific and poetic measure.Erebus transports us to an Antarctic of paradox. A land where perpetual daylight balances months of austral darkness. A land of encounters with the unknown, and with mortality - but where camaraderie and faith are the only defence against catastrophe.At its heart, Erebus is a visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Dramatis Personae

A Note on Formatting

Part 1: Portal Point

Portal Point °

Part 2: Out of the Silence

1

Out of the Silence

2

Antarctic Convergence °

3 °

Water Sky °

Knots

4

Ice Blink °

5

Unloading °

Calculating Risk

Tricks of the Light

6

Splendid Isolation

Part 3: The Practical Application of Ionospherics °

Base A (Lockroy) °

Calling the Antarctic °

Messages from Home (i)

Messages from Home (ii)

2nd November 1959

Messages from Home (iii)

Ionogram

Messages from Home (iv)

Base Z (Halley)

Part 4: Met Obs °

Everywhere something is happening...

Optical Phenomena [OP(i)] °

15th December 1952

25th December 1952

9th January 1952

Litany of Hours °

Prayer

Codes (1) °

7th April 1952

27th April 1953: Lunar Rainbow

[OP(ii)]

30th April 1952

The Stevenson Screen

13th May

Codes (2)

21st June 1954

Codes (3)

Sympathetic Light

3rd July 1952

13th July 1952

28th August 1952: Partial solar halo

[OP(iii)]

August/September 1952

8th September 1952: Irisation

[OP (iv)]

13th October 1953: Saw-Edged Stratocumulus

Cumulus °

30th November 1952: Complete Circumzenithal Arc

28th Dec 1952

Subliming Off

[OP(v)]

Part 5: Erebus °

Notes

Acknowledgements

Also by Elizabeth Lewis Williams

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Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Lewis Williams, Elizabeth Erebus

ISBN:

9781912665266

OCLC:

1455754159