Cold Adventures in the World's Frozen Places |
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| Author:
| Streever, Bill |
| ISBN: | 978-0-316-05246-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Little Brown & Company
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| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to
The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood...
More DescriptionFrom avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears.
A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures woolly mammoth carcasses and the ice-age Clovis tribe from melting glaciers, and he evokes blizzards so wild readers may freeze -- limb by vicarious limb.