Understanding the Oceans
Subtitle: A Century of Ocean Exploration
Contributors: Margaret Deacon (Editor); Tony Rice (Editor); Colin Summerhayes (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781857287066
Subjects: Oceanography (seas); Marine sciences; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Science / Marine Biology; 20th century; History
First sentence: The scientific circumnavigation of HMS Challenger from 1872 to 1876 is acknowledged as representing an important stage in the development of ocean science, if not its very beginning.