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Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
Kingfisher
May 2006
128 pages
ISBN: 0753459930
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The sun never sets, the air is twenty degrees below zero,
and the ice is moving at four hundred yards an hour. Welcome
to the North Pole. In 2003, environmental reporter Andrew
Revkin joined a scientific expedition to one of the world's
last uncharted frontiers, where he was the first New York
Times reporter ever to file stories and photographs from the
top of the world. In his quest to understand the pole,
Andrew leads readers through the mysterious history of
arctic exploration; he follows oceanographers as they drill
a hole through nine feet of ice to dive into waters below;
peers into the mysteries of climate modeling and global
warming; and ultimately shows how the fate of the pole will
affect us all.
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