The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd ·页码：128 页 ·出版日期：2006年06月 ·ISBN：0753413299 ·条形码：9780753413296 ·装帧：精装 ·正文语种 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
·页码：128 页
·出版日期：2006年06月
·ISBN：0753413299
·条形码：9780753413296
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Nyt
·外文书名：这里是北极
内容简介 Through a special collaboration with "The New York Times", Kingfisher Publications is pleased to present a new way to learn about the events and concepts that define our world. Gripping first-person narratives, written by veteran "New York Times" journalists, bring history and current events to life for young readers. Full-colour illustrations, photographs and sidebars explain key concepts, and historical articles from the archives of "The New York Times" place events in the global context. This fresh, authoritative narrative taps the knowledge and experience of one of the US's most honoured science writers, Andy Revkin. Beginning with a white-knuckle airplane landing on an ice floe at the top of the world, Andy leads readers through a world of ice and water, describing the stark beauty of the pole, the scientists who endure the arctic chill to study this vanishing land, the adventurers who are drawn to the north for personal reasons, and the not-so-pretty realities of camping in the Arctic without running water. From there, we learn about the historical draw of the pole - beginning with the Ancient Greeks and continuing through the arctic expeditions of Franklin, Peary, Byrd and Amundsen - then continue on to the discoveries of the newest adventurers to the north: scientists. Years of research, interviews and science coverage come together to explain the phenomenon of global warming, varied perspectives on its causes and potential effects, and the implications it holds for the frozen north.
作者简介 Andrew C Revkin has spent two decades covering subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the loss of the space shuttle Columbia to the changing climate at the North Pole. He has been an environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995, a position that has taken him to the Arctic four times since 2003. He was the first New York Times reporter ever to file stories and photographs from the floating sea ice around the North Pole. His coverage of climate change won the inaugural National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States pre-eminent scientific body. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, along with other prizes, has won an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.
