Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781408811108 (1408811103)
ASIN: 1408811103
Publish date: 2012-03-01
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
An excellent overview of a mysterious and yet crucial continent. Told very well through the experiences research and recollections of the oddballs who stay there for long periods of time, even those trully hearty souls who "winter" over there and the members of the 300 club. If anyone truly discount...
Gabrielle Walker, a British scientist with a Ph.D. in chemistry, has captured the wonderful, almost other worldly quality of the southernmost part of our planet in Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent. Penguins are Antarctica's cute cliche and I love them as much as anyone but ...