Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science - Dian Olson Belanger

Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science
Dian Olson Belanger
EXPLORATION • 2006 • HARD COVER • 494 PAGES

Belanger draws on interviews, memoirs, and official records in this comprehensive history of U.S. participation in the 1957-1958 International Geographysical Year. The IGY, fondly rembered by a generation of Antarctic scientists, brought 11 nations together on the Antarctic continent -- and prefigured the Antarctic Treaty. (ANT241, $29.95)

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