The Ice
Subtitle: A Journey to Antarctica (Cycle of Fire/Stephen J. Pyne)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780295976785
Subjects: Geographical discovery & exploration; Arctic Islands And Antarctica - History; Discovery And Exploration (General); Science; Nature/Ecology; Antarctica; Earth Sciences - General; Geophysics; Polar Regions; Earth Sciences - Geography; General; Discovery and exploration
First sentence: They raft across a wine-dark sea, sometimes isolated, sometimes strung together, circling the continent like gears within a vast orrery of floating ice.