The Crystal Desert is not only the most eloquent book ever written about Antarctica but one of the best portraits of a place ever published.
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Review:
In The Crystal Desert David Campbell weaves together travelogue gathered from his many visits to the wind-blasted continent of Antarctica, along with natural history, oceanography, and accounts of the tortured attempts of earlier exploratory missions "in an alien environment, beyond the edge of the habitable earth." He's a gifted writer with an especially fine hand at making his readers feel right at home in a place very few of us will ever get to see. Armchair travelers couldn't ask for a better book, no matter what the season.
About the Author:
David G. Campbell is the author of the prizewinning Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. He is a professor of biology at Grinnell College.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0395680824
- ISBN 13 9780395680827
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages297
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