Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen PlacesFrom avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year long search for cold real, icy, 40 below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35 degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in

From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears.

A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures woolly mammoth carcasses and the ice-age Clovis tribe from melting glaciers, and he evokes blizzards so wild readers may freeze -- limb by vicarious limb.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 07/19/2010
ISBN: 9780316042925
Pages: 291
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/01/2010 pg. 24