Finding Mars / Ned Rozell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rozell, Ned, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientists--Japan--Biography.

Scientists.

Permafrost--Research--Alaska.

Permafrost.

Alaska--Climate.

Alaska.

Yoshikawa, K. (Kenji).

Yoshikawa, K.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher-and inveterate wanderer-Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa's fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen in the ice near Barrow. It's an always on-the-move account of a man driven n.

Contents:

Not like the other boys

Fourth rock from the sun

Wretched little port

Empty spots

Wind is the eskimo's friend

Dare to fail

Usually, you die

Secret of the permafrost

To the end of the Earth

The wine-dark sea

The night of winter

Some kind of big changing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781602231238

1602231230

OCLC:

893740799