[SEMCO] HMS Challenger Book Talk and Signing

[Tracey Crago]

Book Talk & Signing with Richard Corfield, author of
The Silent Landscape:  The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger

The voyage of HMS Challenger was one of the most important marine 
expeditions of the Victorian age. Sent out to gather information about 
the ocean and ocean floor, its real mission was to confirm Darwin's new 
theory of evolution. Put simply, it was a test between God and Science. 
Of the 243 men who left England in December 1872, only 144 returned 
after three years and more than 68,000 nautical miles. The Silent 
Landscape is the story of this epic voyage and the science
that it discovered, which forever changed the way we view the oceans. 
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10725.html

Tuesday, October 28 at 3:30 p.m. -- Reception to follow
Redfield Auditorium in the Village of Woods Hole.
Sponsored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological
Laboratory, WHOI Sea Grant, and USGS Woods Hole Field Center.

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Tuesday, October 28 at 7 p.m. -- Light refreshments will be served
Redfield Auditorium in the Village of Woods Hole.
Sponsored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological
Laboratory, WHOI Sea Grant, and USGS Woods Hole Field Center.


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Michael J Carlowicz           Science Writer and Editor
Fenno House, Mail Stop #40    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543          Phone: (508) 289-3771
We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our
exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for 
the first time. -- T.S. Eliot, from "The Four Quartets"
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