Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife,
and history. Antarctica: The Blue Continent is a superbly illustrated
and easy-to-understand book that reveals this polar region's ruthless
majesty and natural beauty. The environment is Earth's harshest,
coldest, most inhospitable climate. A staggering 98% of the continent
is covered with ice averaging 1.4 miles in depth; 90% of the world's
ice is found in there. In spite of the cold and ice, Antarctica's
shores and waters are home to an amazing variety of vegetation and
indigenous wildlife-seals, sea lions, whales, penguins and sea
birds-that have evolved in extraordinary ways to adapt to their
unforgiving habitat. The book features natural phenomena such as a
glacier made of jagged, Jurassic-era rock instead of ice, and entire
mountain ranges filled to their peaks with snow. In the chapters on
polar exploration, Antarctica profiles Captain Cook, Roald Amundsen,
Shackleton, Scott, and others. Readers will experience why this
continent has inspired so much effort and heroism in the quest to
discover its secrets. This book is a concise version of the authors'
608-page Antarctica and the Arctic.
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