Ebook {Epub PDF} The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G. Campbell

 · A glittering, curlicued natural history of Antarctica: Campbell's literary debut and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award winner. Campbell (Nations and the Global Environment/Grinnell College) passed three summers at Brazil's Antarctic Research Station, in a land of surprisingly abundant life ""hatching, squabbling, swimming, and soaring on the sea wind"" during the ""short, erotic. "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: Summers in Antarctica, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), Islands in Space and Time, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), SIDELIGHTS: Biologist David G. Campbell's credentials literally span the entire.

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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. 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. The acclaimed author and biologist shares “a superb personal account [of Antarctica] a remarkable evocation of a land at the bottom of the world” (Boston Globe). During the s, biologist.