The Crystal Desert, Summers in Antarctica

The Crystal Desert, Summers in Antarctica by David G Campbell. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, MA, 1992. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Good- DJ. 308 Pgs. ISBN 039558969X. LCCN 92-10583. The author brings the Antarctic to vivid, teeming life in this eloquent, comprehensive natural and social history of the ice-clad continent below the Southern Ocean. Over the course of three austral summers in the 1980s, he explored life ''beyond the edge of the habitable earth'', studying parasites in seals, fish and crustaceans. Chapters detail local geology and botany, and chronicle the frenetic summer activity of penguins and seals; skuas, terns and albatrosses; plankton and krill. Accounts of the area's discovery and its exploitation in the seal- and whale-hunting expeditions that thrived 100 years ago are enlivened with reference to letters, diaries and other first-hand reports. Description text copyright 2010 BooksForComfort. Item ID 22124.