Life in the Freezer: Natural History of the Antarctic - Hardcover

Fothergill, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0563364319 ISBN 13: 9780563364313

Verlag: BBC Books, 1993

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Texto en inglés. Profusamente ilustrado con fotografías color. 28 x 22. Tela editorial tapa dura de editorial ilustrada con plateados en lomo. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. At one and a half times the size of the United States, it has a year round population of only 800 people. Three quarters of the world"s fresh water envelops it in a layer of ice so thick it conceals mountain ranges as vast as the alps. And with temperatures below seventy degrees celsius and wind

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Published to accompany a BBC1 television series presented by David Attenborough, this is an illustrated natural history of the Antarctic. Season by season, it traces the lives of the fish, birds, mammals and plants of an extraordinary continent. Spring finds whales, seals and birds feeding in the richest ocean in the world, and summer sees a frenzy of activity as the Antarctic inhabitants race to breed before the onset of winter. In autumn their young face many hazards - leopard seals snatch fledgling penguins from their parents and killer whales overturn ice-floes to attack the seals. In winter, when the frozen sea literally doubles the size of their home, only the remarkable emperor penguins and a few brave humans remain. Meanwhile, below the ice, underwater cameras capture pictures of abundant life - giant spiders, soft corals and countless varieties of fish.

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• Verlag: BBC Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0563364319
• ISBN 13: 9780563364313
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216