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The North Pole was here : puzzles and perils at the top of the world / Andrew C. Revkin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Revkin, Andrew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revkin, Andrew--Travel--North Pole--Juvenile literature.
- Revkin, Andrew.
- Revkin, Andrew--Travel--Arctic regions--Juvenile literature.
- North Pole--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- North Pole.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile literature.
- Arctic regions--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile literature.
- Revkin, Andrew--Travel--North Pole.
- Revkin, Andrew--Travel--Arctic regions.
- North Pole--Description and travel.
- Arctic regions--Description and travel.
- North Pole--description and travel--Arctic regions.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Travel.
- Arctic Ocean--North Pole.
- Arctic Regions.
- Local Subjects:
- North Pole--description and travel--Arctic regions.
- Genre:
- Young adult nonfiction.
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Kingfisher, 2006.
- Summary:
- The sun never sets, the air is twenty degrees below zero, and the ice is moving at four hundred yards an hour. Welcome to the North Pole. In 2003, environmental reporter Andrew Revkin joined a scientific expedition to one of the world's last uncharted frontiers, where he was the first New York Times reporter ever to file stories and photographs from the top of the world. In his quest to understand the pole, Andrew leads readers through the mysterious history of arctic exploration. He follows oceanographers as they drill a hole through nine feet of ice to dive into waters below; peers into the mysteries of climate modeling and global warming; and ultimately shows how the fate of the pole will affect us all.
- Contents:
- Where all is south
- The imagined Pole
- Cold reality
- The polar puzzle
- Glimpsing the future
- Three broken bolts
- The once and future Pole.
- Notes:
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- "A New York Times book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119) and index.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy G614 .R48 2006 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024. Dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9780753459935
- 0753459930
- 9780753461389
- 0753461382
- 1415682763
- 9781415682760
- OCLC:
- 61362740
- Publisher Number:
- 9780753459935
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