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Förlag	Smithsonian Books
Språk	Engelska
Bandtyp	Inbunden
Utgiven	2006-06-01
Antal sidor	160
ISBN	9781588342386
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For centuries Antarctica has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists and armchair travellers. Its starkly beautiful landscape, extraordinary wildlife and harsh climate only begin to suggest the wonders of the world's least understood continent. Intrigued by a part of the planet vividly described in the journals of explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Henry Shackleton, award-winning photographer Joan Myers set out to see for herself why people are drawn to such an inhospitable and uncompromising place. Over the course of several trips, Myers traversed the continent by foot, plane, helicopter, snowmobile, and Coast Guard icebreaker. Working in below-freezing temperatures, braving blizzards and wind chills as low as -84 and she captured entrancing panoramas of Antarctica's beauty and vast scale, teeming penguin rookeries and docile seals and the ghostly abandoned huts of early explorers. From her temporary base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica's primary research facility, she documented the daily lives of the scientists and support staff who work in this extreme environment. Wondrous Cold features more than 180 of Myers' captivating colour and black-and-white photographs. Her engaging journal entries describe the physical challenges of taking photographs in a place where a tripod freezes solid in five minutes as well as the research, rhythms and rituals of life on the Ice. New York Times writer Sandra Blakeslee contributes sidebars on the science conducted at the world's most remote frontier.

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