Arctic & Antarctic [electronic resource]
Taylor, Barbara, 1954-2013
Book
Examines the kinds of life living in the Arctic and Antartica and how they've adapted.Abstract: Here is an exciting and informative guide to the vast, icy wastes at the ends of the earth. Superb color photographs of snowy mountains and frozen seas, rare animals and plants, and the teeming life on and under the ice offer a unique "eyewitness" view of our planet's polar wilderness. See a seal with a "trunk", a bear in a burrow, icebergs bigger than skyscrapers, 200-year-old snow goggles, and a pony's snowshoe. Learn about the northern and southern lights, the crushing power of ice, why Amundsen beat Scott to the South Pole, how penguins keep warm, and what reindeer eat. Discover why layers of clothing retain body heat, which birds are known as "pirates of the air", which mammals live farthest north, how long a walrus feeds on its mother's milk, whether lemmings commit mass suicide or not, and much, much more!
Main title:
Arctic & Antarctic [electronic resource] / written by Barbara Taylor ; photographed by Geoff Brightling.
Work:
Imprint:
New York [N.Y.] : Dorling Kindersley Pub., c2000 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2013.)
Collation:
1 online resource (32 entries) : 199 images, digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
"A Dorling Kindersley book."Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: 63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps
Contents:
The ends of the earth -- The Arctic and tundra -- The Antarctic -- Life in the Antarctic Waters -- Migrants and residents -- Adaptable animals -- Survival of the fittest -- Birds of the Arctic -- Birds of the Antarctic -- Lords of the skies -- Ocean wanderer -- South Pole penguins -- Emperors of the Antarctic -- King of the Arctic -- The mighty moose -- Tundra wildlife -- Reindeer and caribou -- Company of wolves -- The weighty walrus -- Suited to the sea -- Giants of the seas -- A herding life -- Hunters of the north -- Discovering the Arctic -- Scott and the Antarctic -- Keeping warm and safe -- Polar travel -- Life at the poles -- Last frontiers.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781782682042 (online)0789458519 (pbk)0789458500 (hc)0789458500 (print)9780789458506 (print)0789458500 (hc)0789458500 (hc)9780789458506 (hc)9780789458513 (pbk)
Dewey class:
508.311
LC class:
QL104
Language:
English
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BRN:
502402
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