num_pages: 354
description: An engaging and informative guide to the natural history of the vast, forbidding Arctic region. In clear and elegant prose, the author details the history, flora and fauna, geology, and importance of the far northern world. He covers such topics as the ice ages, glaciers and other geologic formations, weather, birds and animals of the tundra, the great northern forests, and man's arctic explorations. Illustrated.
language: English
title: To the Arctic: An Introduction to the Far Northern World
titlecomplete: To the Arctic: An Introduction to the Far Northern World (Wiley Science Editions)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Wiley