a story of new climate data & old polar archives with tony white
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Tony White’s new novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South is published by the Science Museum as their Atmosphere commission 2013. The novel was inspired by Tony’s discovery in the archives of a little known science fiction story written in Antarctica in 1911 by Captain Scott’s surviving meteorologist George Clarke Simpson. Novelist Tony White gave a short reading from Shackleton’s Man Goes South, and explains how he used contemporary climate data and old polar archives to tell a new kind of climate change story.TRANSCRIPT
Tony White
Shackleton’s Man Goes South: new climate data & old polar archives
ODI FridaysFriday, 17 May 2013
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/shackletonsman
FREE at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/shackletonsman
Shackleton’s Man Goes South display in the Atmosphere gallery. Image: Science Museum
George Clarke SimpsonCredit: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
BFI National ArchiveGeorge Clarke SimpsonCredit: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
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Photo: Royal Moroccan Police, courtesy of Ursula Biemann and Charles Heller, The Maghreb Connection, 2006.
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