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The Wake of HMS Challenger : How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Gillen D'Arcy.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition.Its goal: to shine a light for the first time on the mysteries of the deep sea.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Beach Philosophers
- Chapter 1. Embrittled Star
- Chapter 2. Skeletons from the Ooze
- Chapter 3. The Fire Reefs
- Chapter 4. Wide Sargasso Seaweed
- Chapter 5. Darkness Visible
- Chapter 6. Heyday of the Octopus
- Chapter 7. Brooch Clams and Hairy Mussels
- Chapter 8. The Recklessness of Beauty
- Chapter 9. The Challenger Deep
- Chapter 10. A Salmon's Pilgrimage
- Chapter 11. Death of a Naturalist
- Chapter 12. Message from the Cosmos
- Chapter 13. Dream of the Green Turtles
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-23325-X
- OCLC:
- 1532826615
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