HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Rex, Markus, author.
Subjects
Polarstern (Ship)
MOSAiC expedition (2019)
Global warming -- Research -- Arctic regions.
Global warming -- Arctic regions.
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions -- Climate.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Rex, Markus, author.
by title:
The greatest polar e...
MARC Display
The greatest polar expedition of all time : the Arctic mission to the epicenter of climate change / Markus Rex ; in collaboration with Marlene Göring ; translated by Sarah Pybus.
by
Rex, Markus, author.
Vancouver [British Columbia] : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Berkeley [California] : Greystone Books, 2022.
Subjects
Polarstern (Ship)
MOSAiC expedition (2019)
Global warming -- Research -- Arctic regions.
Global warming -- Arctic regions.
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions -- Climate.
ISBN:
1771649488 (hardcover)
9781771649483 (hardcover) :
Description:
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Part I: Fall. It begins -- On thin ice -- A new home -- Part II: Winter. Alone at the end of the world -- Storm in the polar night -- Christmas in the ice -- Part III: On land. On a knife edge -- Part IV: Spring. Return to the ice -- The great thaw -- Part V: Summer. High summer on the ice--The North Pole -- and a new ice floe -- Going home -- Epilogue.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate crisis, the MOSAiC expedition--launched in 2019 by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research--was the first of its kind, journeying deep into the epicentre of climate change, the Arctic, to seek hard-to-find and potentially world-changing scientific data. Rex begins with life aboard the Polarstern, a powerful icebreaker ship that is frozen into fragile ice and carried across the Arctic by the Transpolar Drift. Away from the rest of the world, the team prepares for life under brutal conditions, constructing "cities" and "towns" on the ice where they will study the Arctic ecosystem, its atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and more. A terrifying feat that had never been attempted before, the team of hundreds of scientists perform their research during terrifying storms, cracking ice floes, frost-bite, and even quarantines as Covid-19 sweeps the globe. But there are heartwarming moments, too, as Markus Rex describes Christmas parties on the ice and polar bears playing with scientific equipment like puppies. He muses on expeditions past, such as the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, and Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition, which he follows as a guide. And he explores answers to the pressing questions facing the Arctic today: How will climate change impact this precious ecosystem--and therefore the rest of the world? What is the best way to protect the Arctic? Interweaving history, science, and memoir, The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time is a page-turner about the teamwork it takes to complete a risky goal, all in the name of understanding--and responding to--the climate crisis."--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
363.73874 Re
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.