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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. 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...
