Antarctica secrets of the southern continent pdf

Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent tells its story as we know it so far. The book features up-to-the-minute coverage of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands, including geology and geography, flora and fauna, current scientific research, conservation issues, and the impact of global warming. Antarctica also includes inspiring stories of polar exploration and scientific enterprise, from early hypotheses about an unknown southern land, through Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole in , the ratification of the Antarctic Treaty of , and the subsequent cooperative effort to preserve Antarctica as "a continent for peace and science.

Award-winning travel writer David McGonigal has completed some 40 visits to the polar regions, most recently as a shipboard presenter and photographer. A heavyweight tome in every sense of the word! Stunning images plus in-depth info on geology, flora and fauna, history and exploration.

Wanderlust From start to finish, this is a beautifully produced book: facts, figures, maps, diagrams, biographies of polar explorers and tales of famous expeditions.

Every question you've ever had about the continent is answered, along with a great many you would never have thought to ask. We're still open for business - read our EU and Covid statements. Prothero Michael J. Benton Richard Fortey View All.

British Wildlife. Weiter zu British Wildlife. Conservation Land Management. Weiter zu Conservation Land Management. Publisher: Frances Lincoln Ltd. Included are more than photographs, illustrations and maps. Detailed information is found on current issues of land, law and treaties, shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism.

Also included are the Antarctic Treaty, a gazetteer and a bibliography. Front-page news reports cover the relative health of Antarctica. This authoritative book could not be timelier. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Antarctica , please sign up.

Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent. Oct 07, Meg rated it really liked it. This book was very informative. It had a lot of great information about animals, climate, and geography. The photographs of the animals were very adorable! This was a very large book, so be prepared if you get this from your library like I did.

Oct 24, Alison rated it it was amazing. A large but insightful NF book about Antarctica, that even if the reading of it daunts you, just staring at the wonderful photography will blow you away will be enough. A lot of work went into this book and it was very well done. Bought myself a copy after buying one for school. Well worth it if you are a fan of Antarctica.

Reading level at teen and older teen due to the scientific nature. But as I said, you can just gawp at the pics and be delighted. Oct 18, Anita rated it really liked it. Oct 12, Vicki rated it it was amazing Shelves: travel , nonfiction. It's probably not supremely accurate to mark this down as a travel book, even though there is some information on tourism in the book. But if this gorgeous book doesn't make you want to go to Antarctica, then I don't think you're looking closely enough.

The photography is positively stunning, and the book is beautifully laid out. There's a lot of information in here, but it doesn't follow that it's overwhelming. This book is great for browsing in an idle 20 minutes, but it's also excellent for r It's probably not supremely accurate to mark this down as a travel book, even though there is some information on tourism in the book. Included are more than photographs, illustrations and maps.

Among the topics covered are:. Detailed information is found on current issues of land, law and treaties, shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism. Also included are the Antarctic Treaty, a gazetteer and a bibliography. Front-page news reports cover the relative health of Antarctica. This authoritative book could not be timelier. David McGonigal is an award-winning travel writer and the author or editor of more than a dozen books.

He has made 25 journeys to the Antarctic Peninsula, Ross Sea, and Northeast and Northwest passages as leader, lecturer and photographer. There is a book in my life that has led me to where I am today. When we got back home, my father gave me Nansen's book about his traverse of the Greenland icecap. It was written in language that was too hard for me at that age. But in the school library the next day I found a book for kids about Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole -- and that book inspired my childhood dream of skiing to the South Pole.

The visit to the school library also opened my eyes to the fact that books could take me everywhere -- and teach me everything I wanted to know. Christmas Eve -- more than 30 years after I had read that first book about Antarctic exploration -- I reached the South Pole. I had skied, solo and unsupported, over miles 1, km. It took 50 days. Books about the old explorers had mentally prepared me for a harsher journey than I had.

As the days passed on my way to the South Pole, I felt that I got more and more joy and energy. The undulating Antarctic landscape of white and blue and grey, the patterns in the snowdrifts and in the skies all mixed with the poetry I read at night -- making it as much a mental expedition as a physical one. Even though I was pulling a sled weighing lb kg , the hard work is not what I remember. It was the feeling of being at one with nature -- of knowing why I was there, what life is, who I am.

Antarctica is the world's last true wilderness. Each visit is an adventure for all who have the privilege to go there.