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"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm . . . The book evokes the frozen seas, whale hunts, snow plains and storms that intimidated those...
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À l'occasion d'un congé sabbatique, Guillaume décide, avec son épouse, de passer plus de temps avec leurs jeunes enfants. Cette année, ils la passent en Polynésie française et explorent l'archipel des îles Marquises. Véritable source de découvertes, de réflexion et d'émerveillement, il vous invite à le suivre sur les traces de son périple riche en rencontres extraordinaires et intrigantes…
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A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography
For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth-and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them...
4) Arctic Fox
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Follow an arctic fox through its day as it eats, sleeps, and cares for its young.
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During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.
Between scuba expeditions in Admiralty Bay, Campbell remembers the explorers who discovered Antarctica, the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and the scientists who...
7) Reindeer
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Follow a reindeer through its day as it eats, sleeps, and cares for its young.
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David J. Drewry is honorary fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and former director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge and of the British Antarctic Survey. His books include Glacial Geologic Processes and Antarctica and Environmental Change. A world-renowned glaciologist, he has a mountain and a glacier named after him in Antarctica. He lives in Cottingham, England.
A wondrous story of scientific endeavor-probing...
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