The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
by David G. Campbell
List Price:
Our Price: $4.34
You Save: $16.61 (79%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.28 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: David G. CampbellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-05-07
ISBN: 0618219218
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Reviews of The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
Book Review: Brilliant read
Summary: 5 Stars
The author is both a passionate biologist and a sensitive prose stylist. His paean to Antarctica combines his considerable knowledge about the continent's history and biology with his own direct observation of the place and close study of its creatures. Fully researched, critically observed, beautifully written. If you're interested in Antarctica, or just like nature writing, you need to read this book.
Summary of The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.
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.
Polar Regions Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Polar Regions Books
Buried In Ice: A Time Quest Bookby Owen Beattie, John Geiger, Shelley Tanaka
Scholastic; Published: 1993-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.99
Blizzard-Race To The Poleby Jasper Rees, Sir Ranulph Fiennes
BBC Books; Published: 2006-07-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $0.14
Price in other shops:
Antarcticaby Eliot Porter
Dutton Adult; Published: 1978-10-31; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $65.69
Antarctica (Enchantment of the World)by Henry Billings
Children's Press (CT); Published: 1994-09; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $203.07
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedyby David Crane
Knopf; Published: 2006-11-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.45
Price in other shops:
Beyond the Frozen Sea: Visions of Antarcticaby Edwin Mickleburgh
Bodley Head Ltd.; Published: 1987; Hardcover; Book
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imaginationby Francis Spufford
Palgrave Macmillan; Published: 1999-07-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.15
Price in other shops:
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passageby Anthony Brandt
Knopf; Published: 2010-03-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.94
Price in other shops:
The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passageby Andrew Lambert
Yale University Press; Published: 2009-09-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.11
Price in other shops:
Fatal passage: The untold story of John Rae, the Arctic adventurer who discovered the fate of Franklinby Kenneth McGoogan
HarperFlamingo Canada; Published: 2001; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $80.05
Similar Books and other products
The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Penguin Classics; Published: 2006-02-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.20
Price in other shops:
Ushuaia to Antarctica - Drake Passage Map: Polar Voyage Log Mapby Sergio Zagier
Zagier & Urruty Pubns; Published: 2007-12-28; Map; Book
Best price: $8.79
Price in other shops:
The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean (Second Edition)by Brett Jarrett, Hadoram Shirihai
Princeton University Press; Published: 2008-01-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $34.83
Price in other shops:
Antarctic Explorer (Ocean Explorer Maps)by Nigel Sitwell
Nhbs Ltd; Published: 2009-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.98
Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern ContinentFirefly Books; Published: 2008-10-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.67
Price in other shops:
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyageby Alfred Lansing
Basic Books; Published: 1999-03-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.43
Price in other shops:
Lonely Planet Antarctica (Country Travel Guide)by Jeff Rubin
Lonely Planet; Published: 2008-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Penguins of the Worldby Wayne Lynch
Firefly Books; Published: 2007-08-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.18
Price in other shops:
Antarctica Wildlife 5th (Bradt Guides)by Tony Soper
Bradt Travel Guides; Published: 2008-09-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.92
Price in other shops:
Antarctica Cruising Guide: Includes Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Seaby Peter Carey, Craig Franklin
Awa Press; Published: 2009-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.73
Price in other shops: