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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 308 pgs, index, references, notes. The story of life's tenacity in the coldest and most alien of continents--a chronicle of events during the desperately short summer when the sun sets only briefly.
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica Paperback - 2002
by David G. Campbell
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.
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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.
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- Title The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
- Author David G. Campbell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-05-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618219216 / 0618219218
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92010583
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.989
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