Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Bill Streever (Author)
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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.

• Rank: #25929 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-07-02
• Released on: 2009-07-22
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

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Categories: New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2009, Nonfiction, Cold. Contributors: Bill Streever - Author. Format: NOOK Book

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