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Magnetic by Stewart A. Weaver
Yale University Press · New release

Magnetic

Erebus and Terror and the Last Great Voyage of the Age of Sail

Stewart A. Weaver

Yale University Press · World History
Releases February 16, 2027 · ISBN 9780300282856

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About the book

Stewart Weaver tells of James Clark Ross's 1839-43 Antarctic expedition in Erebus and Terror, sent to study the Earth's magnetic field, and how that work led to the discovery of Antarctica.

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