A wide-ranging narrative adventure through the coldest places, chilliest times and frostiest experiences on Earth
Bill Streever chairs the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel in Alaska and serves on many related committees, including a climate change advisory panel. A biologist, he lives with his son in Anchorage, where he hikes, bikes, camps, scuba dives, and cross country skies, as often as the weather allows.
A poetic, anecdotal narrative complete with polar expeditions, Ice Age mysteries, igloos, permafrost, and hailstorms...A wonderful collection of one man's first-rate observations and commentary about the history and importance of cold to the earth and its occupants. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYMr Streever writes with passion and fills his book with entertaining facts - ECONOMISTHe sculptures lucid explanations and fires them with fine writing - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWMr Streever's prose does what E L Doctorow says good writing is supposed to do, which is to evoke sensation in the reader - The New York Times
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