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These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D'Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of \u003ci\u003eTerra Australis Incognita\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth's climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of their Victorian forerunners, Gillen D'Arcy Wood describes Antarctica's role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA deep-time history of monumental scale, \u003ci\u003eLand of Wondrous Cold\u003c\/i\u003e brings the remotest of worlds within close reach—an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'When we think of Antarctic exploration we think of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson and the tragic golden age of polar exploration. But, as environmentalist Gillen D'Arcy Wood reveals, there was a first wave in the late 1830s and '40s. His tale revolves around the voyages of French, American and English explorers Jules Dumont d'Urville, Charles Wilkes and James Ross, all involved in an intensely competitive race to Antarctica. Their stories are touched by triumph and tragedy, the uplifting and the poignant with D'Arcy Wood's descriptions of his subjects and the natural world, evocative and vivid—whales \"grazing on the algal film of the ocean's surface like cattle on a meadow.\" Woven into this is the history of the region, scientific discoveries, glaciation and climate change, a balancing act D'Arcy Wood carries off with creative poise.'\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854633095404,"sku":"9780691172200","price":84.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/98ba319a520673103f76ca9a7cf530f4.jpg?v=1759267215"},{"product_id":"tambora-by-gillen-darcy-wood-9780691168623","title":"Tambora","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCommunities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale. Here, Gillen D'Arcy Wood traces Tambora's global and historical reach: how the volcano's three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, \u003cem\u003eTambora\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854888194284,"sku":"9780691168623","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691168623.jpg?v=1759258230"},{"product_id":"the-wake-of-hms-challenger-by-gillen-darcy-wood-9780691233246","title":"The Wake of HMS Challenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA scientific adventure story that dramatises how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 1872, HMS\u003ci\u003e Challenger\u003c\/i\u003e embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. 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