Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

David N. Thomas (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0643090878
ISBN-13: 978-0643090873
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,241,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Packed with photographs taken in the course of the authors journeys. He provides an in-depth background to the whole ecosystem of sea ice, its living communities and the structure of the ice itself.

About the Author

David Thomas is a marine biologist at the University of Wales, Bangor, and has worked in polar regions since 1991. He has conducted several expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic and carried out research into the pack ice of the Baltic Sea. He has written popular science features about sea ice for Science, BBC Wildlife Magazine and New Scientist, and is author of Seaweeds (Natural History Musem, 2002) and the academic edition An Introduction to Sea Ice (Blackwells Scientific, 2003). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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THIS FRIGHTENING DESCRIPTION of the awesome power of the ice was written by the Norwegian Frigdtjof Nansen of Friday, October 13, 1893, as his robust ship, the Fram, became stuck in the Arctic pack ice. Read the first page

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Phenomenally Informative 2 Nov 2005

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Format:Hardcover

For a book of this size (just over 200 pgs) it contains a fascinating amount of information on an incredibly interesting subject. The breadth and depth of information covered in the space of so few pages is astounding and yet the author doesn't skimp on details. Should appeal to a wide and educated audience. It's written at a level that neither speaks down to the reader nor trys to overwhelm or impress, but merely inform. Much more could be shared, but I would simply encourage the reader to purchase the book and see for themselves. Outstanding!

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