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Soundings
Author | : Doreen Cunningham |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781982171797 |
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“This book is a gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she explores the stories of the whales and their young calves—their history, their habits, and their attempts to survive the changes humans have brought to the ocean. Cunningham’s voice is powerful: sharp, profound, sensitive, and unflinching. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. For this is Doreen’s story, too—a fierce, feminist tale, touching on her childhood and her time living in a Women’s Refuge with her baby, becoming a mother, just like the whales. Lyrical, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.
Soundings
Author | : Hali Felt |
Publsiher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781466847460 |
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Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. When combined, Marie's scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one another as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing not only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole. With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.
Soundings
Author | : Rod Dunne |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781291225570 |
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What becomes of a deep space explorer once a long-settled land is reached? Astronaut Linien Primae arrives on Aesop, a human colony 4000 years in the making. For most arrivals, conforming to the leisure classes is a way of life, all watched over and entertained by Cybernet's Neural Swarm. But a society of docile unquestioning citizens makes for a sickly sort of equality. It's too much like voluntary servitude for Linien... and he wants none of it. Irish author Rod Dunne unleashes the third of his science-fiction series featuring the autonomous anti-hero Linien Primae. Other books in the series include (1) Terra Swarm and (2) Erebus
Sonic Soundings
Author | : United States. Hydrographic Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Deep-sea sounding |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112106571919 |
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Ground water Exploration Using Deep Schlumberger Soundings at Edwards Air Force Base
Author | : Adel A. R. Zohdy,Robert J. Bisdorf |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Groundwater |
ISBN | : UCR:31210025008366 |
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Precise Dead Reckoning in Offshore Soundings
Author | : Harry A. Seran |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Dead reckoning (Navigation) |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101067396737 |
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Microscopical Examination of Soundings Made by the U S Coast Survey Off the Atlantic Coast of the U S
Author | : Jacob Whitman Bailey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : KBNL:KBNL03000053714 |
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Deep sea Soundings in the North Pacific Ocean
Author | : United States. Hydrographic Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Deep-sea sounding |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822010150548 |
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