David Day Antarctica (Paperback) What Everyone Needs To Know®

Description: Further DetailsTitle: AntarcticaCondition: NewSubtitle: What Everyone Needs to Know®Author: David DayFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190641312EAN: 9780190641313ISBN: 9780190641313Publisher: Oxford University Press IncGenre: HistoryTopic: Science Nature & Math, Law & PoliticsRelease Date: 07/25/2019Description: Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century following this, countries competed for the frozen land's vast marine resources--namely, the skins and oil of seals and whales. Soon the entire territory played host to competing claims by rival nations. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, but countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past--and in the process intimations of its alarming future.Delving into the history of the continent, Antarctic wildlife, arguments over governance, underwater mountain rangers, and the continent's use in predicting coming global change, Day's work sheds new light on a territory that, despite being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, will continue to be the object of intense speculation and competition.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 227gBook Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®Release Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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