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Antarctica

An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Myserious Continent

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Antarctica

By: Gabrielle Walker
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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About this listen

Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the Earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, most of which focus on only one aspect of its unique strangeness. None has managed to capture the whole story - until now.

Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, in Antarctica Gabrielle Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into an intricate tapestry, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. With her we witness cutting-edge science experiments, visit the South Pole, lodge with American, Italian, and French researchers, drive snowdozers, drill ice cores, and listen for the message Antarctica is sending us about our future in an age of global warming.

This is a thrilling trip to the farthest reaches of Earth by one of the best science writers working today.

©2012 Gabrielle Walker (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Environment Science Polar Region

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It is a shame Politic Ian's and Industry do NOT take Scientists warnings about true effects of Global Warming as the Antarctic and Attic melt.

A warning to. Is all

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I couldn't stop listening, it was such an interesting read you just had to find out what amazing revelation was going to be offered next.

it's a different world!

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great story a real eye opener,interesting story of the frozen south and all what happens there in a year,thank you.

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This really is a wonderful account of Antarctica and everything from its history, climate change, what it’s like to actually be there together with much more is skill-fully woven together, I am looking forward to listening to it again in the not too distant future!

A great listen

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I read this in 2018 and it still has me thinking what a good book this is, so surprised it doesn't have more reviews.
fascinating onsite and descriptions of what it was like being there, which filled me with a desire to visit and experience it for myself

I'd now like to visit!

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