Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Arms, Myron

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ISBN 10: 0385490925 ISBN 13: 9780385490924

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 1998

Riassunto

The sailor describes his failed Arctic voyage, his mission to learn why his passage was blocked by an unusual mass of sea ice, and his successful journey past the Arctic Circle

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"This crucial book describes a voyage in every sense of the word--a wonderfully told account of a passage to some of the world's loneliest waters, as well as a remarkably lucid tale of a journey into the most vital science now in progress anywhere on earth."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

"Offers not only a provocative introduction to the emerging field of 'earth systems science,' but also a gripping sea yarn tinged with disquieting scenarios of cataclysmic climate change."--Outside

"Wonderfully rich...[Arms'] science reporting is sound, his eye for meaningful detail sharp."--Kirkus Reviews

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August 14, Sunday morning.  62/05N, 56/35W

LOG: Wind: south, eight knots.  Barometer, 29.68 steady.  Weather: broken overcast.  Position: Davis Strait, 200 miles due east of Meta Incognita Peninsula, Baffin Island.

For twenty-four hours after leaving Gotthabsfiord, Brendan's Isle races before strong easterly winds, skidding down the faces of following seas, vibrating and shuddering, throwing a curtain of spray from her bows, carving a line of white foam in her wake.  The knot-meter ticks ten, eleven, twelve knots as she surfs downhill, surrounded by streaks of spindrift and flanked by long, breaking crests.

We'll keep three on watch at all times tonight, I decide, and we'll rotate a radar operator and a person on the bow every half hour, adding an extra lookout forward if we get into heavy ice conditions.  We'll run at speed directly for Saglek Bay--a fiord in the Tourgat Mountains with a decent anchorage near its mouth that is protected from the north.  And we'll cross our fingers, rub every lucky stone, and kiss every four-leaf clover we can find--hoping we make it safely through.

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• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385490925
• ISBN 13: 9780385490924
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267