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Soundings: The Story Of The Remarkable Woman Who Mapped The Ocean Floor (2012)

by Hali Felt(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805092153 (ISBN13: 9780805092158)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

review 1: Marie Tharp's life story is worth telling, and the author does so well, consciously using literary techniques parallel to those Marie used to create the first scientific maps of the ocean floor that supported the new theory of plate tectonics--extrapolate to fill in unknown areas based upon what seems reasonable. A social misfit, Marie Tharp made a huge impact on science and ended her life with devoted "Tharpophiles" surrounding her. She loved her science and her partner in life and research; her enthusiasm must have been contagious.
review 2: What an exciting book for me. Hali Felt has written a very personal biography of Marie Tharp (it's about the writer's obsessions almost as much as Tharp and continental drift and plate tectonics and academic careers and ... morewomen's neglected contributions to science). All biographers imagine themselves into their subject's life, I think, Felt just does this more honestly and unabashedly, asking her readers to indulge her, to patiently ride out her imaginings - because they help tell the story. The Rachel Carson biography by William Souder could have been this good, but wasn't. less

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