One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Clare Dudman
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1883-1931
- Setting: Berlin and Hamburg, Germany; Copenhagen; Graz, Austria; Iceland; and Greenland
- Principal Characters: Alfred Wegener, Kurt Wegener, Johan Koch, Else Köppen Wegener, Vladimir Köppen, Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Twentieth century, Science or scientists, Germany or German people, Ice, Arctic, Greenland or Greenlanders
- Locales: Berlin, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, Austria, Iceland, Hamburg, Germany, Greenland
During his lifetime, Alfred Wegener was ridiculed by his colleagues, and even today, though the theory of plate tectonics is familiar even to schoolchildren, the name of the German meteorologist who first suggested that land masses are constantly in motion is not widely known. In One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead, Clare Dudman reminds the world how much it owes to a man who stood up to abuse by his colleagues with the same courage that led him onto the glacial ice of Greenland and finally to an early death.
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