Land of Extremes Format: Paperback

Alexander Huryn and John Hobbie

ISBN 10: 1602231818 / ISBN 13: 9781602231818

Published by University of Chicago press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land of Extremes Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602231818
• ISBN 13: 9781602231818
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the identification and natural history of the common animals and plants and a primer on the human prehistory of the region from the Pleistocene through the mid-twentieth century. The appendix provides the framework for a tour of the natural history features along the Dalton Highway, a road connecting the crest of the Brooks Range with Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and includes mile markers where travelers may safely pull off to view geologic formations, plants, birds, mammals, and fish. Featuring hundreds of illustrations that support the clear, authoritative text, Land of Extremes reveals the arctic tundra as an ecosystem teeming with life.

 

 

About the Author

John Hobbie is a senior scholar at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He is a founding researcher of the Toolik Field Station in Alaska and former director of the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Project there.