Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

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.
Country USA
Brand LITTLE, BROWN
Manufacturer Back Bay Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2010-07-19
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780316042925

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