The Crystal Desert: Summers in AntarcticaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 - Počet stran: 308 THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself. |
Obsah
Seabirds and Wind | 20 |
Memories of Gondwana | 37 |
Life in a Footprint | 56 |
Penguins and Hormones | 71 |
The Galaxies and the Plankton | 93 |
The Bottom of the Bottom of the World | 112 |
The Worm the Fish and the Seal | 129 |
Visions of Ice and Sky | 147 |
The Tern and the Whale | 188 |
The Passing of the Leviathans | 209 |
The Tempest | 236 |
Afterword | 250 |
Latin Names of Plants and Animals Mentioned in Text | 253 |
Notes | 261 |
References | 282 |
| 298 | |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
abundant Adélie Adélie penguin Admiralty Bay albatross algae American amphipods animals Antarctic krill Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Arctic austral Bailey Head baleen whales beach Bellingshausen birds blue whale Bransfield British brown skuas Cape captain centimeters chicks chinstraps cold continent crabeater crew diatoms diving Earth edge eggs elephant seals expedition exploration factory ship feed females fish fossils freezing frozen fur seals glaciers Hooker humpbacks hunting icebergs icefish invertebrates Keller Peninsula Kerguelen kilograms kilometers King George Island land Larsen leopard seals lichens males mate meters migration million mosses mountain nest numbers orcas pack ice Palmer parasite Patagonia penguin rookery percent petrels plankton polar predators right whale rock rorquals Ross sailed seafloor sealers season shore skins skuas snow South Georgia South Shetland Islands Southern Ocean species sperm whale squid station storm summer surface survive swarm terns tropical voyage warm Weddell Sea Weddell seal wind wing winter wrote
Oblíbené pasáže
Strana 1 - And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...