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xxiv, 388 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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A profile of Antarctica and its indigenous life traces the history of regional exploration and the science currently being conducted there while explaining how Antarctica reveals key insights into the planet's environmental future.
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141 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : colour illustratoins, colour maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Fully revised with a new chapter on climate change and updated and expanded maps. Focusing on the geography and physical phenomena of this remote region, this book contains all the information visitors will need during their trip. It describes and explains the geographical setting, climate and weather, geology, glaciology, and much more, and includes the location of research stations and historic sites. Drawing on the world-class scientific and cartographic...
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"What do we stand to lose in a world without ice? A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent--Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth which is nobody's country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic...
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253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information. Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history - to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it, too, with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids...
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Zay Harding goes on an adventure to the ends of the Earth, from Ushuaia, Argentina to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, the South Shetland Islands, and on to Antarctica. He sails the Antarctic Peninsula marveling at cathedral sized glaciers, icebergs, and an array of wildlife. Follow Harding as he ice climbs, kayaks, camps, and even plunges into the ice cold Antarctic waters. His journey ends with a treacherous crossing of The Drake Passage...
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239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This...
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xi, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : map, color portraits and photographs ; 24 cm
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English
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Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support and completely human powered. Yet, Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that, even if, ten years earlier, there was doubt that he'd ever walk again normally. From the depths of a tragic accident, he...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns....
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397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"--
In 2019, the ship the Nathaniel B. Palmer set out for Thwaites Glacier, never before visited by humans. The crew's goal: to learn as much as possible about the deterioration of the "Doomsday Glacier" and its potentially catastrophic impact on rising sea levels. Rush provides an astonishing,...
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