Sea Legs
Subtitle: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813340043
Subjects: Biography: general; International relations; Oceanography (seas); Vulcanology & seismology; Women's studies; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; Science; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Biography / Autobiography; Women; Science/Mathematics; Russia; USA; Scientists - General; Environmental Studies; Nature; Natural History; Crane, Kathleen; Biography; Oceanographers; Oceanography; United States
First sentence: It is a cold spring in Arizona.
Description: "Sea Legs is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As research doors in the United States closed during the 1980s, Crane charted her scientific future with the Europeans and with scientists from the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.

In the process, she became an unwitting diplomat."--BOOK JACKET.