Sea and the Ice

Halle, Louis J.

ISBN 10: 080149575X / ISBN 13: 9780801495755

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 1989

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A voyage to the Antarctic by a naturalist who writes a consistently graceful and witty prose; his chief interest in sea birds of the region, he also includes Antarctic lore and history.; 6 x 8 1/2 ".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sea and the Ice
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080149575X
• ISBN 13: 9780801495755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint of 1973 Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

FIRST CORNELL PAPERBACK EDITION. 1989 trade paperback, Louis J. Halle (The Cold War As History). Well-known as a nature writer and amateur specialist on seabirds, Louis Halle had long been fascinated by that icebound world where birds make their strangest adaptions and life reaches its farthest limits. Suddenly he had a chance to go to Antarctica by icebreaker from New Zealand and see it all first hand, even reaching the South Pole. Here are the birds of the sea - the Cape Pigeons, the albatrosses, the ice birds like the Antarctic Fulmar, the penguins and petrels that nest in seemingly impossible conditions, the whales and other mammals of the sea and ice. - Amazon