Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know®

by David Day

Overview

An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world's melting continent, Antarctica

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190641344
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	What Everyone Needs To Know®
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David Day has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a visiting professor at University College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen, and the Center for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including Antarctica: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2013), Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others (Oxford University Press, 2008), and the award-winning Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia.

Table of Contents

1. First Contact
2. The Race for Antarctica
3. Imperial Rivalry
4. War on the Ice
5. Science and Discovery
6. Profiting from Antarctica
7. The Antarctic Treaty
8. Global Warming
9. The Future of Antarctica