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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316042925ISBN-10:316042927UPC:9780316042925Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Earth Sciences, Life SciencesBook Topic:Geography, EcologySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCCJ3JVDRD
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316042925ISBN-10:316042927UPC:9780316042925Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Earth Sciences, Life SciencesBook Topic:Geography, EcologySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCCJ3JVDRD
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.
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