Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International by R. Launius,J. Fleming,D. DeVorkin

By R. Launius,J. Fleming,D. DeVorkin

The foreign Polar Years and the overseas Geophysical 12 months represented a awesome foreign collaborative clinical effort that has been principally ignored via historians. This groundbreaking assortment seeks to redress that overlook and light up serious facets of the final a hundred and fifty years of overseas medical endeavour.

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