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From the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath.
David J. Drewry provides an insider’s account of the ambitious and often hazardous radar mapping expeditions that he and fellow glaciologists undertook during the height of the Cold War, when concerns about global climate change were first emerging and scientists were finally able to peer into the Antarctic ice and take its measure.
Author: Elleke Boehmer
A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south — the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others — seems far away and ignorable.
In “Southern Imagining,” Elleke Boehmer offers an alternative perspective, using literary, scientific and cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south.
Reading, she argues, is a transformative means of reversing our usual planetary orientation and rearranging our perceptual geography. Boehmer examines writing from across southern continents and islands.
