The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica

by Stephen J. Pyne

Book Overview

"The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345348451
• ISBN13: 9780345348456
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is as definitive as its title. It is THE book on THE ICE.

This is the seminal book on all that is Antarctic. There was never a book like it, and the likelihood that there'll ever be another in its nonpareil class is nil.

Hard to read but you still can't seem to get enough.

Stephen Pyne is a difficult writer, but the depth and meticulous nature of his intelligence pulls you back to him even though you tell yourself to lighten up and read a good mystery. Three cheers to university presses (U of Iowa and U of Washington) for putting and keeping this book in print. The Ice touches on everything about Antarctica: the history, the landscape, the literature, the geology, the biology. The book is all-encompassing--as is The Ice that is its focus and deep passion. It's worth the effort, and your vocabulary will never be the same afterwards. You can read a mystery later.