Download or read book Discovering Antarctica s Land People and Wildlife written by Amy Graham and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the geography, history, economy, plants and animals, culture, and people of Antarctica. Includes Internet links to related web sites.
Download or read book Land of Wondrous Cold written by Gillen D’Arcy Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D’Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita. Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth’s climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of its Victorian forerunners, Gillen D’Arcy Wood describes Antarctica’s role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations. A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach—an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.
Download or read book The Last Continent written by Bernard Stonehouse and published by Shuttlewood Collinson Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antarctica written by Tristan Boyer Binns and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks the questions that young people want answered about Antarctica. Each chapter of this book contains the answers to a different question about this continent. This book includes clear and detailed maps to assist readers in their quest for information. Explanations are given to help students understand a range of issues in Antarctica.
Download or read book Discovering Antarctica written by June Loves and published by Chelsea Clubhouse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes this island continent including its history, location, climate and weather, terrain, landforms, and more.
Download or read book Discovering Antarctica written by June Loves and published by Chelsea Clubhouse. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the plants and animals that live in the harsh environment of Antarctica, including algae, liverworts, threadworms, wingless flies, and penguins.
Download or read book Isn t it Cool written by Diana Short Yurkovic and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the polar regions, looking at geography, exploration, animal life, and research and conservation efforts. Suggested level: primary.
Download or read book Explore Antarctica written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Antarctica, with emphasis on its geography and natural history.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Jane Hinchey and published by Redback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica is a continent with no government, and no permanent population. Find out what life is like in Antarctica.
Download or read book Discovering Antarctica written by June Loves and published by Chelsea Clubhouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces early Antarctic explorers and their expeditions, as well as the people of today and their ways of coping with this cold continent.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Tony Soper and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated throughout, the 7th edition of Bradt's Antarctica: a Guide to Wildlife is the most practical guide to the flora and fauna available for those 'going south'. Celebrating the amazing and often unique species of this spectacular environment, the title features chapters on the region's famous whales and penguins, and also on lesser known species such as skuas and sheathbills, with full coverage of plumage and identification. Each chapter is accompanied by vibrant illustrations from Dafila Scott to help bring species to life. Tony Soper's immaculate and engaging text remains the indispensible choice for the intrepid wildlife enthusiast. Antarctica's wildlife is under threat. The Southern Ocean is warming and the most obvious effect is on the continental ice shelves. Spectacular retreats and monster carvings from the west coast of the peninsula have been seen in recent decades. Less ice means fewer krill, which depend on the ice-edge for the algae which nourish them. In turn, this will impact on seal and whale numbers. In the case of penguins, while kings and macaronis, for instance, are doing well, the magnificently adapted and truly Antarctic species, Adélies and emperors, are in decline. In the case of emperors, maybe by as much as 50%. Bradt's Antarctica not only helps you to identify and understand species and habitats, it also explains the issues faced by this extraordinary continent, regarded by many as one of the most precious places on the planet.
Download or read book Science on Ice written by Veronika Meduna and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science on Ice, award-winning science broadcaster and writer Veronika Meduna follows deep-south scientists who huddle in tents and dive under ice to study ancient mud, fat fish, migrating penguins and fossilised forests. Meduna presents us with a fascinating frozen land - Antarctica's ice cap holds three quarters of the planet's fresh water, its layers of ice and sediment record past climate conditions going back millions of years, and the oceans around it drive the global food chain and a giant conveyor belt of currents that transports heat around the globe. The creatures that call Antarctica home have evolved to survive in conditions hostile to life, and the continent's permanently ice-covered lakes may even hold the secret to how life began on Earth - and what it might look like elsewhere. And though it is the only continent without permanent human habitation, Antartica may yet hold the key to our survival. In this lavishly illustrated book Meduna introduces us to an exhilarating landscape, to fascinating discoveries and to the people making them - those scientists tackling fundamental questions about life and the world around us from the frozen continent.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Lynn M. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the land, wildlife, and people of Antarctica.
Download or read book The Storied Ice written by Joan N. Boothe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts mankind's dramatic history from Magellan through the first years of the twenty-first century in the part of the Antarctic regions below South America and the Atlantic Ocean. This part of the world, by far the most visited portion of the south polar regions, is not only a place of staggering scenic beauty and amazing wildlife, but also a locale with a long and fascinating human history.
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last of Lands written by John Francis Lovering and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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