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Wondrous Cold: An Antartic Journey by Joan Myers: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2006-06-01
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 9781588342386
- Book Title
- Wondrous Cold : an Antartic Journey
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Photography, Nature, Travel
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Polar Regions, General
- Item Weight
- 40.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 11.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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For centuries Antarctica has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists, and armchair travelers. Its starkly beautiful landscape, extraordinary wildlife, and harsh climate only begin to suggest the wonders of the world's least understood continent. Intrigued by a part of the planet vividly described in the journals of explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Henry Shackleton, award-winning photographer Joan Myers set out to see for herself why people are drawn to such an inhospitable and uncompromising place. Over the course of several trips, Myers traversed the continent by foot, plane, helicopter, snowmobile, and Coast Guard icebreaker. Working in below-freezing temperatures, braving blizzards and wind chills as low as -84°F, she captured entrancing panoramas of Antarctica's beauty and vast scale, teeming penguin rookeries and docile seals, and the ghostly abandoned huts of early explorers. From her temporary base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica's primary research facility, she documented the daily lives of the scientists and support staff who work in this extreme environment. Wondrous Cold features more than 180 of Myers' captivating color and black-and-white photographs. Her engaging journal entries describe the physical challenges of taking photographs in a place where a tripod freezes solid in five minutes as well as the research, rhythms, and rituals of life on the Ice. New York Times writer Sandra Blakeslee contributes sidebars on the science conducted at the world's most remote frontier.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN-10
1588342387
ISBN-13
9781588342386
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48661442
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wondrous Cold : an Antartic Journey
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Polar Regions, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Nature, Travel
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
40.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
11.3 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"There is music in [Myers'] best prints: subtle, lovely, and nuanced."Michael More,Camera Arts "Joan Myers' enchanting pictures offer up wonderful insights into the mysterious otherness of the frozen south."Sarah Wheeler, author ofTerra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaandCherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, "There is music in [Myers'] best prints: subtle, lovely, and nuanced."-Michael More, Camera Arts "Joan Myers' enchanting pictures offer up wonderful insights into the mysterious otherness of the frozen south."-Sarah Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica and Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Lccn
2005-024831
Target Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
G860.M98 2006
Copyright Date
2006
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