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Chargement... The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change (2020)par Markus Rex
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. ) fiberdzns | Feb 20, 2023 |  Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.This book describes the year long MOSAIC expedition, launched by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The institute sent the Polarstern maritime research ship into the Arctic Ocean to be frozen in for a whole year, following in the footsteps of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who did the same in a wooden ship in 1897. The Polarstern is a modern icebreaker ship and built for sailing in the polar regions. The measurements taken included sea ice thickness, water temperatures, air temperatures, (using a tethered weather balloon), and much more. The ship zigzag route covered over two thousand miles. Expedition members came from thirty-seven countries. There were eighty partner institutions and scientific institutes from twenty different countries. The translation was excellent. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the process of climate change. I read it in 3 days. There are black and white pictures in my advanced reader copy. The published copy will have color pictures and an index. Thanks to Greystone Books for sending me this book through LibraryThing. I rate it 4.5 stars rounded down. (  ) tom471 | Dec 11, 2022 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I was in Germany during the time the "Polarstern" set out for this amazing adventure in 2019. It was covered by the German media in depth and I was therefore very interested to read a firsthand account of the whole expedition. The writing of the author was very dry (I guess he is a scientist, after all!) but still informative. I have also seen the TV documentary that was filmed during this trip, which was more exciting. I hope that the finished copy of the book has color pictures, I am sure that will greatly improve the appeal to readers. (  ) yukon92 | Dec 3, 2022 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. ThinkingGuy | Nov 28, 2022 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.The concept is intriguing: a group of scientists from various disciplines set out on a polar expedition board a ship that is purposely locked into the Arctic ice for a year in order to study climate change. The face obstacles due to weather, the harsh conditions, polar bears, equipment problems, etc., and everyone comes out alive at the end and with a wealth of data that couldn't have been collected any other way. That's a great concept for a book. What we got though was very much less than that. It's a bloodless tale of almost literally nameless technocrats dealing with process-related issues rather than actually doing anything we can read about and grasp. There are almost no *people* in this story; almost no one is named. We don't get to know any of them. NO one has a personality or quirks, or causes or experiences any problems. We aren't even told exactly what the experiments they're running are, or what the point of any of it is until the final chapter, where we get a very terse description that doesn't illuminate much. Oh and halfway through the expedition, the author--the expedition's nominal leader--takes a vacation home so that he can spend time with his family for the holidays, then returns to the ship a couple months later. What the heck? Disappointing. This one was a real missed opportunity because it's written almost in such a way as to briefly detail the expedition while purposely cutting out all the interesting parts. Dry and uninteresting. ( )1  bibliorex | Nov 22, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"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."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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