The International Geophysical Year in Antarctica: A Triumph of “Apolitical” Science, Politics, and Peace

Reading and thinking about International Polar Years: five recent books

“…I sought the authentic voices of actual participants, available in print and in person from a few veterans of the IGY and perhaps just starting to emerge from IPY 4. For firstperson and in-the-field narratives of the IGY, I used Innocents on the ice*a memoir of Antarctic exploration 1957 (Behrendt 1998 (Belanger 2010) in Globalizing, I found no evidence that any chapters of either Globalizing or History explored these other sources.…”