ODI Fridays: A story of new climate data & old polar archives with Tony White
Tony White’s new novel Shackleton’s Man Goes Sout…
May 20, 201335m 26s
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Show Notes
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.
*Apologies for the slight glitches in this recording.