Name: Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (en Inglés)
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Author: Taylor, Andrew ; Heidt, Daniel ; Lackenbauer, Whitney
ISBN: 9780887557910

portada Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (en Inglés)

Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Andrew Taylor

Ilustrado por

Daniel Heidt

Whitney Lackenbauer

Editorial

University of Manitoba Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

496

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.0 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.73 kg.

ISBN13

9780887557910

Categorías

Reino unido
Regiones polares
C. 1939-c. 1945 (época de la segunda guerra mundial)
Historia de europa
Historia de otras zonas y regiones geográficas
Segunda guerra mundial

Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (en Inglés)

Andrew Taylor (Autor) · Daniel Heidt (Ilustrado por) · Whitney Lackenbauer (Ilustrado por) · University of Manitoba Press · Tapa Blanda

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In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation's first commander to resign, Taylor--a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience--became the first and only Canadian to lead an Antarctic expedition. As commander of the operation, Taylor oversaw construction of the first permanent base on the Antarctic continent at Hope Bay. From there, he led four-man teams on two epic sledging journeys around James Ross Island, overcoming arduous conditions and correcting cartographic mistakes made by previous explorers. The editors' detailed afterword draws on Taylor's extensive personal papers to highlight Taylor's achievements and document his significant contributions to polar science. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of polar exploration, science, and sovereignty. It also sheds light on the little known contribution of a Canadian to a distant theatre of the Second World War. The wartime service of Major Taylor reveals important new details about a groundbreaking operation that laid the foundation for the British Antarctic Survey and marked a critical moment in the transition from the heroic to the modern scientific era in polar exploration.