Cold
Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now in paperback, this New York Times Editor's Choice is a wide-ranging narrative adventure. Biologist Bill Streever examines everything from polar bears to weather reporters to ice ages to Communism, and arrives at a comprehensive, anecdote-filled...
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Now in paperback, this New York Times Editor's Choice is a wide-ranging narrative adventure. Biologist Bill Streever examines everything from polar bears to weather reporters to ice ages to Communism, and arrives at a comprehensive, anecdote-filled understanding of the planet's truly frigid conditions. 'The meaning of this unexpectedly beautiful and ever-intriguing book gathers and deepens like fresh falling snow."-Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Bill Streever
Bill Streever is the bestselling and award-winning author of And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind , Cold, and Heat. As a biologist, he has worked on issues ranging from climate change to the restoration of Arctic tundra to underwater noise to the evolution of cave crayfish. With his wife and co-captain, he splits his time between Alaska and their cruising sailboat, currently in Central America.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bill Streever
- 2010, 320 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,7 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0316042927
- ISBN-13: 9780316042925
Sprache:
Englisch
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