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Mighty bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent
Bruce Luyendyk
(Autor)
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Edward J. Larson
(Prefacio de)
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Permuted Press
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Mighty bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent - Luyendyk, Bruce ; Larson, Edward J.
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What does it take to prevail in Antarctica? Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the US main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold and furious blizzards. They cross ice fields and hidden crevasses, which one of the team learns about the hard way. What keeps them going in spite of these dangers? Will the mountains give up their secrets? Can these scientists find evidence of the formation of the ranges many millions of years ago as the giant continent of Gondwana began to break apart? Was a new continent, now known as Zealandia, created by this event? Mighty Bad Land, told firsthand by Bruce Luyendyk, a former professor of geology, reveals his inner battles and challenges: he's almost fifty, asthmatic, and fights chronic pain. Through deft storytelling, readers are invited into a land of emptiness, beauty, constant daylight, and unseen menace.