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Higher and colder : a history of extreme physiology and exploration / Vanessa Heggie.
LIBRA GB642 .H44 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heggie, Vanessa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extreme environments--Physiological effect.
- Extreme environments.
- Cold regions--Physiological effect.
- Cold regions.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: higher and colder
- Gasping lungs
- Frozen fields
- Local knowledge
- Blood on the mountain
- Conclusion: death and other frontiers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226650883
- 022665088X
- OCLC:
- 1082338545
- Publisher Number:
- 99981665258
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