Finding Mars [[electronic resource] /] / Ned Rozell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460354203321
• Autore: Rozell Ned <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fairbanks, Alaska, : University of Alaska Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-60223-123-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.3/84
• Soggetti: Scientists - Japan; Permafrost - Research - Alaska; Electronic books.; Alaska Climate
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Not like the other boys -- Fourth rock from the sun -- Wretched little port -- Empty spots -- Wind is the eskimo's friend -- Dare to fail -- Usually, you die -- Secret of the permafrost -- To the end of the Earth -- The wine-dark sea -- The night of winter -- Some kind of big changing.
• Sommario/riassunto: Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher-and inveterate wanderer-Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa's fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen in the ice near Barrow. It's an always on-the-move account of a man driven n