The crystal desert : summers in Antarctica / David G. Campbell.
The crystal desert : summers in Antarctica / David G. Campbell.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Date
1992.
Call Numbers
508.989/7
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Language
English
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Physical content
297 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Prologue: Admiralty Bay -- 1. Seabirds and Wind -- 2. Memories of Gondwana -- 3. Life in a Footprint -- 4. Penguins and Hormones -- 5. The Galaxies and the Plankton -- 6. The Bottom of the Bottom of the World -- 7. The Worm, the Fish, and the Seal -- 8. Visions of Ice and Sky -- 9. The Indifferent E...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1992.
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Summary
The Crystal Desert is a story of life's tenacity in this coldest and most alien of continents. It is a chronicle of events - of courtship, hatching, birth, growth, predation, and death - during the desperately short summer, when for three months the sun marches around the northern horizon and sets only briefly. It tells of penguins and seabirds and...
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The crystal desert : summers in Antarctica / David G. Campbell.
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General note
Bibliography: p. [282]-297.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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508.989/7
Record Identifier
74VKD8yLz6Ol
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKD8yLz6Ol
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ISBN
039558969X :
DDC
508.989
MMS ID
991019083799702626
