9780316042918-0316042919-Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

ISBN-13: 9780316042918
ISBN-10: 0316042919
Edition: 1
Author: Bill Streever
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780316042918
ISBN-10: 0316042919
Edition: 1
Author: Bill Streever
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

Summary

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places (ISBN-13: 9780316042918 and ISBN-10: 0316042919), written by authors Bill Streever, was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Biological Sciences (Winter Sports) books. You can easily purchase or rent Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Biological Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.31.

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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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