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Cold Adventures in the World s Frozen Places
by [Streever, Bill]
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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 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.
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- Back Bay Books Brand
- Jul 19, 2010 Pub Date:
- 9780316042925 ISBN-13:
- 0316042927 ISBN-10:
- 321.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.25 in * 0.81 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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