| > Oceanography > Issues > Archive > Volume 23, Number 4 |
2010, Oceanography 23(4):174–176, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.19
BOOK REVIEW | Of Seas and Ships and Scientists: The Remarkable Story of the UK's National Institute of Oceanography
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Of Seas and Ships and Scientists: The Remarkable Story of the UK's National Institute of Oceanography
Edited by Anthony Laughton, John Gould, 'Tom' Tucker, and Howard Roe, The Lutterworth Press, 2010, 350 pages, ISBN 978-0-7188-9230-2, Softcover, $52.50 US
Reviewer
Eric Mills
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, and, formerly, History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King's College, Halifax, NS, Canada
First Paragraph
It was the summer of 1961. I was at sea with a small group of students and some senior scientists on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's graceful old ketch Atlantis. Somewhere in the Sargasso Sea, between stations, we were on deck talking and somehow the Golden Age of classical Greece came up. One of the older scientists broke in to say that the Golden Age was right then and there. And for oceanographers, it certainly was. We had lots of research funding, ships available, chances at plum jobs, and a level of research freedom that has become more and more difficult to find since those heady days...
Full Review
Citation
E. Mills. 2010. Review of Of Seas and Ships and Scientists: The Remarkable Story of the UK's National Institute of Oceanography, edited by A. Laughton, J. Gould, T. Tucker, and H. Roe.Oceanography 23(4):174–176, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.19.