The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
by David G. Campbell
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The acclaimed author and biologist shares "a superb personal account [of Antarctica] . . . a remarkable evocation of a land at the bottom of the world" (Boston Globe).During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.
Between scuba expeditions in Admiralty show more Bay, Campbell remembers the explorers who discovered Antarctica, the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and the scientists who laid the groundwork to decipher its mysteries. Chronicling the desperately short summers in beautiful, lucid prose, he presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and of the continent itself.
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing
and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. show less
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Ecologist and author David G. Campbell earned his B. A. from Kalamazoo College, his M. S. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a biology professor at Grinnell College. Campbell's two novels, The Ephemeral Islands, and The Crystal Desert reflect his passion for nature and the environment. show more (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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