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Title: The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

Author : Jon Gertner

Pages : 418 pages

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Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 41882632

ISBN-13 : 9780812996623

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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future BY Jon Gertner

Read Online and Download The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland--at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland's ice doesn't just tell us where we've been. More urgently, it tells us where we're headed.In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth's last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland's ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century--first on foot, then on skis, .

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