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Author Francis, Gavin.

Title Empire Antarctica : ice, silence & emperor penguins / Gavin Francis.

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2013]

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  919.89 FRA    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  919.89 FRANCIS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  919.89 FRANCIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  919.89 F84    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  919.89 FRA    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  919.89 FRANCIS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  919.89 FRANCIS    Check Shelf
Description ix, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Note "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Chatto & Windus" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260).
Contents Preface : a glimpse from the ice -- Imagining Antarctica -- The axis of the Atlantic -- Of kings and emperors -- Antarctica at last! -- High days and holidays -- The hinge of the continent -- Waiting for winter -- Darkness and light -- Midwinter -- The third quarter -- The promise of life -- Gathering light -- Freedom of the ice -- Of endings and beginnings -- Afterword : the memory of Antarctica.
Subject Francis, Gavin -- Travel -- Antarctica.
Antarctica -- Description and travel.
Emperor penguin.
Natural history -- Antarctica.
ISBN 9781619021846 hbk.
1619021846 hbk.
9781619023406 pbk.
1619023407 pbk.
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