Cold by Streever

Cold (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316042925)

Vendor: Bill Streever
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Cold by Streever

Cold

$21.99
Cold by Streever

Cold

$21.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Bill Streever
ISBN-10: 0316042927
ISBN-13: 9780316042925
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/01/2010 pg. 24
By Bill Streever
By Bill Streever
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Bill Streever is the bestselling and award-winning author of And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind , Cold, and Heat. As a biologist, he has worked on issues ranging from climate change to the restoration of Arctic tundra to underwater noise to the evolution of cave crayfish. With his wife and co-captain, he splits his time between Alaska and their cruising sailboat, currently in Central America.

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