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9780295976785

The Ice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295976785

  • ISBN10:

    0295976780

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
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Summary

In The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica America s foremost expert on wildfire turns to the land without fire, a continent reduced to a single mineral -- ice.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix(2)
William Cronon
Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition xi
Prologue The Berg 1(24)
Chapter 1 The Pack
25(40)
Chapter 2 No Middle Way: The Exploration of Antarctica
65(52)
Chapter 3 The Shelf
117(32)
Chapter 4 Heart of Whiteness: The Literature and Art of Antarctica
149(58)
Chapter 5 The Glacier
207(34)
Chapter 6 Earth and Ice: The Earth Sciences in Antarctica
241(48)
Chapter 7 The Sheet
289(34)
Chapter 8 The Cold Peace: The Geopolitics of Antarctica
323(56)
Epilogue The Source 379(10)
Afterword 389(4)
Notes 393(10)
Sources 403(10)
Index 413

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