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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
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The acclaimed author and biologist shares “a superb personal account [of Antarctica] . . . a remarkable evocation of a land at the bottom of the world” (Boston Globe).

During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.

Between scuba expeditions in Admiralty Bay, Campbell remembers the explorers who discovered Antarctica, the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and the scientists who laid the groundwork to decipher its mysteries. Chronicling the desperately short summers in beautiful, lucid prose, he presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and of the continent itself.

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing

and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 7, 2002
ISBN9780547527611
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica

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