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  The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica (Paperback) By (author) David G Campbell

  

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  Short Description for The Crystal Desert 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. He presents a fasci
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  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Published: 07 May 2002
  • Format: Paperback 308 pages
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  • Categories: Applied Ecology | History Of Other Lands | Natural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780618219216 ISBN 10: 0618219218
  • Sales rank: 438,244

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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 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. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.