false<![CDATA[Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255636175m/6413245.jpg64132452From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears.<BR><BR>A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures woolly mammoth carcasses and the ice-age <ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Clovis</ST1:PLACE> tribe from melting glaciers, and he evokes blizzards so wild readers may freeze--limb by vicarious limb.66022322272009Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Placestotal:39|5:3|4:17|3:14|2:4|1:1|391342001500falsefalseTue Aug 25 15:29:29 -0700 2009Wed Aug 26 13:37:25 -0700 2009
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Cold, filled with obscure facts and fascinating anecdotes, is both entertaining and enlightening, and Streever's crisp, articulate writing style and easy-to-understand scientific explanations yield a compulsively readable book. However, Streever's loosely organized chapters and stream-of-consciousne...more...]]>
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Green Seduction, Cold is a travel diary, a historical narrative, and a discourse on how we are gradually losing the coldest places on earth. Streever writes primarily from Alaska where his travels bring him to Prudhoe Bay, the North Slope,...more...]]>
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"The subtitle of “Cold” suggests a march into the well-scoured terrain of polar exploration. Despair and blackening digits. Man’s best friend for dinner again. But that’s not where we’re going. ...more...]]>
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plus the modestly described personal experiences of the author.
The barrage of anecdotes overwhelmed me in the last few chapters,
but the better pace of the earlier chapters allowed time for new
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