Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land

Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without...
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Author: James McClintock
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Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land by McClintock, James

Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land

$50.18

Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land

$50.18
Author: James McClintock
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock has spent three decades studying the frozen land in order to understand better the world that lies beneath it. In this luminous and closely observed account, one of the world's leading experts on Antarctica introduces the reader to this fascinating world--the extraordinary wildlife that persists despite the harsh conditions and the way each of the pieces fit into the puzzle of the intricate environment: from single-celled organisms to baleen whales, with leopard seals, penguins, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, and multicolored sea stars, in between. Now, as temperatures rise, the fragile ecosystem is under attack. Ad lie penguins that have successfully nested on Antarctic islands for several hundred years have been nearly wiped out. King crabs that used to populate the deep seafloor are moving into shallower waters, disturbing the set order of life there. Lost Antarctica is an appeal to understand and appreciate the wondrous place at the bottom of the world that we are on the brink of losing.

Author: James McClintock
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.12w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781137278883

About the Author

James B. McClintock is one of the world's foremost experts on Antarctica, and currently the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. McClintock has appeared on local, national, and international public radio, CNN news, and the Weather Channel. He has been quoted in National Geographic, Discover Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and others. Each year he leads a philanthropic cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula, sponsored by Abercrombie and Kent. McClintock Point, a body of land on the north side of the entrance of Explorer's Cove on the Scott Coast of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, was named in honor of his research.




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