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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.89
Fabric Type: 9781554073986
Legal Disclaimer: 1554073987
Maximum Color Depth: Firefly Books
Metal Type: Firefly Books
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 400
Total External Bays Free: October 10, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Firefly Books
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The geology, ecology and biology of the "continent for peace and science."
This comprehensive, fully illustrated and reader-friendly book honors the International Polar Year (2007-08) with a spectacular range of information on Antarctica and the Antarctic Islands, the world's harshest environment.
Antarctica features up-to-date material from an expert team of scientists, expeditioners and historians. Included are more than 600 photographs, illustrations and maps. Among the topics covered are:
- Prehistory of Antarctica
- Geology and geography
- Flora and fauna
- Climate and the nature of ice
- The Antarctic ozone hole
- The explorers
- Current scientific research
- Conservation issues
- The impact of global warming
- The Sub-Antarctic Islands.
Detailed information is found on current issues of land, law and treaties, shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism. Also included are the Antarctic Treaty, a gazetteer and a bibliography.
Front-page news reports cover the relative health of Antarctica. This authoritative book could not be timelier.
(20090415)
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I couldn't help but notice this enormous, beautiful book on the "New Book" truck in our library -- 10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches, and nearly two inches thick, with a captivatingly beautiful cover photograph, this massive book appears encyclopedic in both its narrative and photographic coverage of Antarctica.
Twenty-four contributors are listed, nearly all of whom hold a Ph.D. Ranging from biologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, and engineering to travel writers and photographers, their ... Read More
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In doing research for my fourth novel, I ordered this book to give me a visual 'feel' for the fifth largest continent on Earth. The photography is enthralling, the text accurate and incisive, the spirit unbeatable. I have never been to this 'alien' world on our own world, but found this book an inimitable introduction to Antarctica. I recommend the volume to anyone interested in the wondrous, vast diversity of environments on our planet, and in particular to the awesome reality of a place so different ... Read More
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