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- catalog abstract "The Crystal Desert is not only the most eloquent book ever written about Antarctica but one of the best portraits of a place ever published. Most books about Antarctica have focused on the lifeless ice cap that smothers two-thirds of the continent and on the heroic marches toward the South Pole that have pitted humans against a frozen world. The Crystal Desert is about the other Antarctica, the "banana belt" of the Antarctic Peninsula. The interior of the peninsula is. Biological haiku: a few eloquent syllables of plants and animals. The tallest plant is a lichen ten centimeters high, the largest land animal a flightless midge two millimeters long. But the sea surrounding the peninsula brims with life like no other on Earth. 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 seals and whales, of the evolution of life in Antarctica, and of the evolution of the continent itself from the land mass known as Gondwana. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists working there today - especially at the Brazilian station, "Little. Copacabana," where parties often last all night and Carnival runs for three days.".
- catalog contributor b4132760.
- catalog coverage "Antarctica Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Biological haiku: a few eloquent syllables of plants and animals. The tallest plant is a lichen ten centimeters high, the largest land animal a flightless midge two millimeters long. But the sea surrounding the peninsula brims with life like no other on Earth. 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.".
- catalog description "Copacabana," where parties often last all night and Carnival runs for three days.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-297) and index.".
- catalog description "Seabirds and Wind -- Memories of Gondwana -- Life in a Footprint -- Penguins and Hormones -- The Galazies and the Plankton -- The Bottom of the Bottom of the World -- The Worm, the Fish, and the Seal -- Visions of Ice and Sky -- The Indifferent Eye of God -- The Tern and the Whale -- The Passing of the Leviathans -- The Tempest -- Appendix: Latin Names of Plants and Animals Mentioned in Text -- Index.".
- catalog description "Short summer, when for three months the sun marches around the northern horizon and sets only briefly. It tells of penguins and seabirds and seals and whales, of the evolution of life in Antarctica, and of the evolution of the continent itself from the land mass known as Gondwana. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists working there today - especially at the Brazilian station, "Little.".
- catalog description "The Crystal Desert is not only the most eloquent book ever written about Antarctica but one of the best portraits of a place ever published. Most books about Antarctica have focused on the lifeless ice cap that smothers two-thirds of the continent and on the heroic marches toward the South Pole that have pitted humans against a frozen world. The Crystal Desert is about the other Antarctica, the "banana belt" of the Antarctic Peninsula. The interior of the peninsula is.".
- catalog extent "308 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Crystal desert.".
- catalog identifier "039558969X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Crystal desert.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Crystal desert.".
- catalog spatial "Antarctica Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Antarctica.".
- catalog subject "508.98/9 20".
- catalog subject "Campbell, David G. Travel Antarctica.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Antarctica.".
- catalog subject "QH84.2 .C36 1992".
- catalog subject "Summer Antarctica.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Seabirds and Wind -- Memories of Gondwana -- Life in a Footprint -- Penguins and Hormones -- The Galazies and the Plankton -- The Bottom of the Bottom of the World -- The Worm, the Fish, and the Seal -- Visions of Ice and Sky -- The Indifferent Eye of God -- The Tern and the Whale -- The Passing of the Leviathans -- The Tempest -- Appendix: Latin Names of Plants and Animals Mentioned in Text -- Index.".
- catalog title "The crystal desert : summers in Antarctica / David G. Campbell.".
- catalog type "text".