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Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, by John C. Behrendt PDF

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By John C. Behrendt

ISBN-10: 0870814931

ISBN-13: 9780870814938

ISBN-10: 0870815512

ISBN-13: 9780870815515

"Adventures within the Antarctic merely occur whilst a person makes a mistake.”

—From the Preface

In 1956, John C. Behrendt had simply earned his master’s measure in geophysics and got a place as an assistant seismologist within the overseas Geophysical 12 months glaciological application. He sailed from Davisville, Rhode Island to spend eighteen months in Antarctica with the IGY excursion as a part of a U.S. Navy-supported medical excursion to set up Ellsworth Station at the Filchner Ice Shelf. Innocents at the Ice is a memoir in response to Behrendt’s handwritten journals, on reflection on his day-by-day entries describing his lifestyles and actions at the such a lot remoted of the seven U.S. Antarctic stations.

 

Nine civilians and thirty military males lived underneath the snow jointly, and intense own conflicts arose in the course of the dark Antarctic iciness of 1957. Little outdoors touch was once on hand to ease the stress, without mail supply and merely occasional radio touch with households again domestic. The author describes the emotional pressure of the residing scenario, besides info of his events’ explorations of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf process through the summers of 1957 and 1958. alongside the damaging 1,300-mile traverse in Sno-Cats, the sector occasion measured ice thickness and snow accumulation as a part of a world attempt to figure out the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, and made the 1st geological observations of the impressive Dufek Massif within the then-unexplored Pensacola Mountains. Behrendt additionally attracts upon his 40 years of continuous participation in Antarctic study to give an explanation for the adjustments in clinical actions and environmental expertise in Antarctica today.

 

Including photographs, maps, and a thesaurus determining a number of different types of ice, Innocents at the Ice is an engaging blend of the diary of a tender graduate scholar and the reflections of the accomplished scientist he became. 

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