The acclaimed author and biologist shares “a superb personal account
[of Antarctica] . . . a remarkable evocation of a land at the
bottom of the world” (Boston Globe). During the 1980s, biologist
David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its
surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines
travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of
life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. Between scuba
expeditions in Admiralty Bay, Campbell remembers the explorers who
discovered Antarctica, the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and
the scientists who laid the groundwork to decipher its mysteries.
Chronicling the desperately short summers in beautiful, lucid prose,
he presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in
Antarctica and of the continent itself. Winner of the John Burroughs
Medal for Natural History Writing and a Houghton Mifflin Literary
Fellowship
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ISBN
9780547527611
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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