Two Books by Gabrielle Walker
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Overview: Gabrielle Walker has a PhD in chemistry from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. She is a consultant to New Scientist, contributes frequently to BBC radio and writes for many newspapers and magazines. In 2009 she presented BBC Radio 4’s Planet Earth Under Threat and in 2011, Thin Air, a series about the earth’s atmosphere. She lives in London.
Genre: Non-fiction general
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent
Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, but all have focused on only one aspect. None has managed to capture the whole story–until now. Drawing on Walker’s uniquely broad travel across the continent, "Antarctica" weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into an intricate tapestry, illuminating what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people again and again.With her we witness cutting-edge science experiments, visit the South Pole, lodge with not only the Americans but also the Italians and the French, drive snowdozers and drill ice cores, and listen for the message Antarctica is sending us about our future. This is a thrilling trip to the farthest corner of our world, from an author whose work has been praised as "science writing at its best" (Mary Roach).
An Ocean Of Air: A Natural History Of The Atmosphere
We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories of the people who uncovered its secrets:
– A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy our air really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighs seventy thousand pounds.
– A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds a set of winds that constantly blow five miles above our heads.
– An impoverished American farmer figures out why hurricanes move in a circle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door.
– A well-meaning inventor nearly destroys the ozone layer.
– A reclusive mathematical genius predicts, thirty years before he’s proved right, that the sky contains a layer of floating metal fed by the glowing tails of shooting stars.
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