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Little, Brown and Company
July 2010
On Sale: July 19, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0316042927
EAN: 9780316042925
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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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