Soundings : the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor
by Felt, Hali. (Author)
Summary
Before Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the ocean floor was a mystery -- then, as now, we knew less about the bottom of the sea than we did about outer space. In a time when women were held back by the casually sexist atmosphere of mid-twentieth-century academia -- a time when trained... Full description
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