Title: The Ice
Subtitle: A Journey to Antarctica
Description: Half of this book is a detailed, scientific, sometimes rhapsodic dissertation on Antarctica's most prominent feature: ice in its various forms. Interspersed are chapters on the exploration, geopolitics, earth sciences, literature, and art of the region: intellectual histories assuming background knowledge. The alienness of Antarctica is stressed. Pyne, a professional historian, author of books such as Fire in America (1982), has written a work of interest to scholars and specialists, though likely to overwhelm the general reader.
Subjects: Antarctica, Polar exploration, Earth sciences, Discovery and exploration, Children's non-fiction, Nature
Places: Antarctica