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The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica

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The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica - Pyne, Stephen J
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From The Ice: "It appears out of the fog and low clouds, like a white comet in the twilight. To enter Greater Antarctica is to be drawn into a maelstrom of ice. Ice is the beginning of Antarctica and ice is its end. As one moves from perimeter to interior, the proportion of ice relentlessly increases. Ice creates more ice, and ice defines ice. Everything else is suppressed. This is a world derived from a single substance, water, in a single crystalline state, snow, transformed into a lithosphere composed of a single ...

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The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica 1998, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295976785

Trade paperback

The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica 1988, Ballantine Books

ISBN-13: 9780345348456

Mass-market paperback

The Ice: A journey to Antarctica 1987, Arlington Books Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780851407098

2nd edition

Hardcover

The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica 1986, University of Iowa Press

ISBN-13: 9780877451525

Hardcover