Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Bill Streever, "Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places"
English | 2010 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0316042927, 0316042919 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
English | 2010 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0316042927, 0316042919 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
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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