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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

✍ Scribed by Streever, Bill

Book ID: 106884571
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780316042918

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✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: 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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