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UNINA9910823909903321 |
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Autore |
McGuire Rosemary Desideria |
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Titolo |
Cold latitudes / / Rosemary McGuire |
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Fairbanks, Alaska : , : University of Alaska Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 pages) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Animals - Polar regions |
Climatic changes - Political aspects |
Polar regions Environmental conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Kongakut River, Easter Island -- Rivers, Solitaire -- Herring, Norton Sound -- Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut -- On the Tiglax -- On the Pacific Ocean -- Salvadors at Seal River -- Summer of Light and Ice -- Catching Krill at Midnight, Palmer Deep -- Adélie/Gentoo -- Leopard Seals -- Wilhelmina Bay -- Guillemot of Cooper Island -- At the Eider Perch -- Nanuq, Utqiaġvik -- The People of the Whale -- Spring Whaling -- Dinosaurs and Wind on the Colville River. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From solo voyages down the Yukon and part of the Northwest Passage, to working with humpback whales in the Southern Ocean, to chilling encounters with polar bears, Rosemary McGuire's stories are told in spare, graceful prose. It is her friendships with local people, and with scientific researchers, that form the core of her experiences. Through these local contacts and traditional knowledge, she learns humility and a sense of wonder at the natural world, while at the same time coming to appreciate the gritty determination of the field researchers whose work she shares. Throughout, she examines human relationships with wilderness, and |
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our growing effects on a fragile planet. And so, as she writes, "In the end, this is a love story for a threatened place."-- |
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