"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early expl…
The National Endowment for the Humanities has underwritten my work on this project for a number of years, and I gratefully acknowledge the neh Long-Term Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia that inaugurated my research in 2010; the neh-sponsored 38th Voyage of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan that gave me more insight into shipboard life a…