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"Deftly balances the scientific and poetic."―Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Soundings is an eloquent testament both to Tharp's importance and to Felt's powers of imagination."―The New York Times Book Review
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 geologists and scientists like Tharp were routinely relegated to the role of secretary or assistant―Tharp's work would completely change the world's understanding of our planet's evolution. By transforming dry data into beautifully detailed maps that laid the groundwork for proving the then controversial theory of continental drift, Tharp, along with her lifelong partner in science, Bruce Heezen, upended scientific consensus and ushered in a new era in geology and oceanography. "A playful, wildly thoughtful writer" (Oprah.com), Hali Felt vividly captures the romance of scientific discovery and brings to life this "strong-willed woman living according to her own rules, defying the constraints of her time" (The Washington Post).
- Sales Rank: #61513 in Books
- Published on: 2013-07-02
- Released on: 2013-07-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.23" h x .95" w x 5.45" l, .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From Bookforum
The publication of this extensively researched and very warmhearted re-creation of Tharp's life fills out a previously blank region of our knowledge of scientific history. One wonders what other treasures still lie buried in the deep. — Britt Peterson
Review
“Felt is a playful, wildly thoughtful writer, who can extrapolate meanings about our view of the past from outdated scientific terms…that illuminate the text with the kind of evocative details that make the story of real life so real.” ―Oprah.com
“Felt's enthusiasm for Tharp reaches the page, revealing Tharp, who died in 2006, to be a strong-willed woman living according to her own rules, defying the constraints of her time.” ―The Washington Post
“This is a fascinating account of a woman working without much recognition who used recorded soundings to map the ocean floor and change the course of ocean science.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“[Soundings] provides a memorable account of oceanography during the 1940s to 1960s: a thrilling time when so much was being discovered. And it celebrates the extraordinary life of Tharp as a woman and a scientist.” ―Nature
“[Tharp] is the woman who mapped the ocean floor, forever changing scientific understanding of the planet. Ignored and marginalized for much of her career, Tharp has at last come into her own.” ―Science News
“Felt has been able to perform the sort of data-handling magic on these mountains of memorabilia that Tharp earlier performed on Heezen's soundings--distilling a sharp and illuminating biography that reveals the profiles and contours of a life.” ―Natural History
“Felt follows the traces of Tharp's life by deftly balancing the scientific and the poetic.” ―Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[Felt] wrestles complex research procedures and concepts into submission…In the same way researchers sound the floor of the ocean, Soundings finds the depths in Tharp. Both the life and the biography are rich in accomplishment.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Hali Felt poignantly imagines a private life the way her subject interpolated the unseen deep: hauntingly conjuring what cannot be known firsthand. Tharp [is] a fascinating character in the saga of oceanographic exploration and deserves this admiring biography.” ―Bust Magazine
“Felt's biography reimagines [Tharp's] progression from a nomadic childhood through scientific breakthroughs with a vivid, poetic touch, revealing an idiosyncratic and determined woman whose 'vigorous creativity' advanced everyone's career but her own.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Felt's biography brings [Tharp's] contributions to life...readers interested in biographies will appreciate Tharp's remarkable scientific work. Recommended.” ―Library Journal
“A complex, rich biography of a groundbreaking geologist who discovered 'a rift valley running down the center of the Atlantic'...A well-researched, engaging account of an important scientific discovery that should also find a place on women's-studies shelves.” ―Kirkus
“Delightful…[Soundings] is an artfully written biography about a rakish and headstrong woman in the sometimes antagonistic boys'-club atmosphere of academia in the mid-twentieth century…This is an exceptional story told by an equally exceptional writer.” ―Booklist, starred review
“Biography readers who love discovering stories of fascinating, historically important figures should rush to find a copy of Soundings…Felt's mission is not to embroider or alter Tharp's essence, but to discover it, and she succeeds in this powerful portrait of a woman so driven that society could not stop her from changing the world.” ―Shelf Awareness
“Felt has done an outstanding job bringing Marie Tharp to life as an eccentric and colorful character…it's a fascinating human story that reads better than some fiction.” ―Story Circle Book Reviews
About the Author
HALI FELT teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and has completed residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and Portland Writers in the Schools. In the past, she has reported for the Columbia Journalism Review and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. She lives in Pittsburgh.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Book
By Robert J. Stern
It must be hard to write convincingly about science and the often-opaque people who do science if you are not a scientist. For that reason, Ms. Felt's effort to illuminate the enigmatic Marie Tharp is convincing and interesting. It is perhaps least illuminating about the talented but impenetrable Marie Tharp, but that is not for lack of trying. Other biographers gave up trying to capture Tharp but Ms. Felt brought her project to a most satisfactory completion. The work is more illuminating about the almost-bizarre Bruce Heezen and even more illuminating about how the world-class Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory rose to eminence. In a way, the most interesting part are her insights into its leader, Doc Ewing. Ewing was clearly a man used to getting his way and there was no one more capable of driving him mad - or at least out of LDEO - than Marie and Bruce. Especially Marie, her obstinence must have driven him nuts! On the other hand, we read a book ostensibly about Marie but at the end know almost as little about her motivations as we did at the outset. Still, it is a great read about the history of marine mapping and one woman's experience in science, at a time when doors were starting to open for a new generation of women marine geoscientists, even as they closed for Marie. That makes it a bit surprising that some of the other early women marine geoscientists are not interviewed about Marie. There were some, and some of them are still alive.
Quibbles:
1) Bob Dietz - the man who coined the term "spreading seafloor", who published his Nature article a year before Hess published his "essay in geopoetry, the generous soul who referenced Hess twice and that Hess studiously ignored - is not mentioned. Hess was a Princeton snob while Dietz was a crazy Californian, Dietz's creativity (doubtless inspired by the Lamont maps) must have driven Hess nuts. Dietz deserves better treatment.
2) Menard didn't see rifts in the Pacific spreading ridges because they aren't there. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge has an axial rift because it is a slow-spreading ridge and these have axial rifts. The East Pacific Rise is a fast-spreading ridge and has a magma-inflated axial region because that is the nature of fast spreading ridges.
3) There is no way to see New Zealand while flying from Indochina to Sydney.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
A Different View
By Richard R. Pardi
In the literature of the history of science we seldom get a glimpse at the personalities involved in scientific discoveries. In Soundings Hali Felt has applied a style that can only be termed intimate to the life and times of Marie Tharp - a style that is a blend of autobiography and biography. Perhaps it will be considered sexist, but Marie Tharp could easily be called the "mother" of Plate Tectonics. Yet her name often appears only in passing when the history of the Plate Tectonic revolution is told. What was it about Marie's life story that might have presaged her accomplishments, and, why, the author repeatedly asks, does she not rate a more prominent position in the history of science?
In the first half of Soundings, Hali Felt does a good job in establishing how Marie's eclectic early life and education probably provided the foundation for her unique and revolutionary approach to visualizing the ocean floor. But the author fails to document (despite several passing comments) Marie's "abundant other contributions" to marine science. Reading the second half of the book brought to mind images of Leonardo endlessly retouching La Gioconda. How significantly did Marie influence ideas that Bruce Heezen went on to publish and take credit for? What impact did the updates of her ocean floor maps have on the course of marine science after their initial dramatic appearance?
To her credit, the author does not dwell on discrimination as the basis for Marie's eventual banishment from Lamont. Sexism was certainly a component of the social atmosphere of Lamont, but it was not the primary driving force that defined status at the lab. That role fell to a hierarchical system based on education, friendships, and a sustaining (and perhaps fanatical) commitment to hard work and productivity. Tharp's woes are more properly assigned to the fact that she did not have a doctorate and that she remained steadfastly devoted and loyal to Bruce Heezen. Whatever Heezen's accomplishments, his expanding Earth explanation for the mid-ocean ridge put him outside the circle that eventually (ala Hess) put the Plate Tectonic/sea-floor-spreading model on the right track. With Heezen's untimely death, Marie was left high and dry. This raises some unseemly questions about the professional relationship between Heezen and Marie, not developed in this book. Certainly Bruce was aware of the underlying forces upon which power was wielded at Lamont and in the overall geoscience community. The issue of Marie completing her doctorate must have been mentioned at some point, and it is entirely conceivable that Marie, with her pre-eminent position in the geoscience community already established, could have obtained her doctorate without much trouble (there were women in the doctoral program by the late 1960s.) That Marie seemed to be satisfied with that odd arrangement is no excuse - it sealed her fate.
Marie's place in the pantheon of Plate Tectonic Theory is better established than Felt would have it. And, Tharp is not the only geoscientist to be slighted in the crush of praise reserved for Hess. For example, textbooks often give short shrift to J.T. Wilson's transform faults - without them the interpretation of the pattern of the mid-ocean rift would be meaningless.
When examining the history of scientific revolutions, one must take a holistic view and not focus on one idea or individual. The time was ripe for change. Geosynclinal theory had reached an absurd, Rube-Goldbergian low point. The ocean floor maps (and their iconic mid-ocean-rift-valley) provided the visual spark essential for understanding the parallel denouement of seismic and magnetic signals. The ocean-floor maps that Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen produced will stand the test of time - they are on a par with Americo Vespucci's 15th century map of the new world.
Several pages of notes and an index but no real bibliography accompany the text, which for the most part was free of errors (with the notable exception of the mirror-image cover photo.)
Richard R. Pardi Environmental Science William Paterson University
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A great history of an overlooked scientist.
By Paul McFarland
This is the latest in a number of long overdue books that recognize the women who, assisted in, shared in, or in many cases made, fundamental scientific discoveries.
Marie Tharp devoted her life to the study of the ocean floor. A region that was less understood than the face of the moon. She took strings of data obtained from scores of observations by vessels of many nations and put them together into a map. The ability to see this data at a glance on a map changed geology forever. The current understanding of plate tectonics and continental drift comes directly from the study of her meticulous rendering of this data.
Pull up Google maps and take a look at any see bed. This woman mapped 90% of what you are looking at. On top of that she until very recently - after her death by the way - got very little credit for it.
This is a very good book. It tells in great detail the life of a brilliant woman and just what "following your dream" used to entail if you happened to be born female.
I recommend this book very strongly to anyone who has an interest in science or the history of social change.
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