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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0812996623
- ISBN 13
- 9780812996623
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About This Item
New York: Random House, June 2019. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiv + 418 pages.
Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland--at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland's ice doesn't just tell us where we've been. More urgently, it tells us where we're headed.
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- Title
- The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- Author
- Jon Gertner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812996623
- ISBN 13
- 9780812996623
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 2019
- Pages
- xxiv + 418
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- environment, global warming, nature, science, ecosystems, discovery, exploration, research, Arctic, Greenland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology; Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries; History; Arctic & Antarctica;
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