Wildlife Of The Arctic Travellers Guide

Author : Sharon Chester
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865964
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Guide written by Sharon Chester and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive full-color field guide to Arctic wildlife The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of wildlife—more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals—that inhabit the Arctic’s polar deserts, tundra, taiga, sea ice, and oceans. It can be used anywhere in the entire Holarctic region, including Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, Siberia, the Russian Far East, islands of the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, size, habitat, range, scientific name, and the unique characteristics that enable these organisms to survive in the extreme conditions of the Far North. A color distribution map accompanies each species account, and alternative names in German, French, Norwegian, Russian, Inuit, and Inupiaq are also provided. Features superb color plates that allow for quick identification of more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals Includes detailed species accounts and color distribution maps Covers the flora and fauna of the entire Arctic region

Author : E.C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614867X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic written by E.C. Pielou and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic's natural history—sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects—for those who will experience the Arctic firsthand and for armchair travelers who would just as soon read about its splendors and surprises. It is packed with answers to naturalists' questions and with questions—some of them answered—that naturalists may not even have thought of.

Author : Richard Sale
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180547
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife of the Arctic written by Richard Sale and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneously published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers, London in 2018.

Author : Tony Soper
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784770914
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antarctica written by Tony Soper and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated throughout, the 7th edition of Bradt's Antarctica: a Guide to Wildlife is the most practical guide to the flora and fauna available for those 'going south'. Celebrating the amazing and often unique species of this spectacular environment, the title features chapters on the region's famous whales and penguins, and also on lesser known species such as skuas and sheathbills, with full coverage of plumage and identification. Each chapter is accompanied by vibrant illustrations from Dafila Scott to help bring species to life. Tony Soper's immaculate and engaging text remains the indispensible choice for the intrepid wildlife enthusiast. Antarctica's wildlife is under threat. The Southern Ocean is warming and the most obvious effect is on the continental ice shelves. Spectacular retreats and monster carvings from the west coast of the peninsula have been seen in recent decades. Less ice means fewer krill, which depend on the ice-edge for the algae which nourish them. In turn, this will impact on seal and whale numbers. In the case of penguins, while kings and macaronis, for instance, are doing well, the magnificently adapted and truly Antarctic species, Adélies and emperors, are in decline. In the case of emperors, maybe by as much as 50%. Bradt's Antarctica not only helps you to identify and understand species and habitats, it also explains the issues faced by this extraordinary continent, regarded by many as one of the most precious places on the planet.

Author : Stephen Charles Brown
Publisher : Braided River
ISBN 13 : 9780898869750
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Wings written by Stephen Charles Brown and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred color images celebrating the birds that journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge each year are accompanied by essays by noted biologists and conservationists.

Author : Tony Soper
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784776432
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arctic written by Tony Soper and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and beautifully illustrated full-colour guide to some of the most exciting wildlife in the world in an area about to see a significant increase in visitor numbers as a direct result of changes in the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. Bradt's Arctic Wildlife is an ideal companion on board and on shore. A fascinating and informative read. Visitors to the far north cruise the Arctic coast in the company of humpback whales and belugas, see polar bears hunt ringed seals, and come in contact with a host of shorebirds and wildfowl gorging on the abundance of summer food. This revised edition includes new illustrations, a section covering the distinct flora and fauna of the Bering Sea and the revised version of the Arctic Code of Conduct. Tony Soper's expert knowledge is richly supplemented with full-colour illustrations by award-winning wildlife artist Dan Powell.

Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007291906
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Cold Heaven written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gretel Ehrlich travels across the largest island on Earth, in the company of men and women who have a deep bond with it. She discovers the realm of the great dark, ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo nomads.

Author : Jennifer Barclay
Publisher : Bradt Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784770817
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beastly Journeys written by Jennifer Barclay and published by Bradt Guides. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which wild animals somehow came along for the ride, including: David Attenborough tries to get an armadillo through Paraguayan customs; adventurer Ash Dykes takes a white cockerel to Maromokotro to ward off evil spirits; Mike Gerrard shares a car journey from Belsize Park to Canvey Island with a python; Brian Jackman rides, walks and swims with Abu the elephant; Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year Dom Tulett rows with a kingfisher; and John Rendall travels to Africa with Christian, the lion he bought at Harrods and raised in west London. Also included is a brand new piece of writing from ultramarathon runner Dion Leonard about his experience with Gobi, the stray dog who accompanied him for 80 miles over the treacherous Tian Shian mountains. A mix of new, previously unpublished writers and old favourites are included, with extracts from writers such as Mark Shand (Travels on my Elephant), Dervla Murphy (Eight Feet in the Andes) and Robert Louis Stevenson (Travels with a Donkey), not to mention Gerald Durrell, 19th-century explorer Isabella Bird and renowned publisher Michael Joseph. Compelling, engaging, surprising, humorous and entertaining. if this book proves one thing it's that travel with animals is every bit as unpredictable as you would expect it to be.

Author : Jack Williams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592570737
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic written by Jack Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now armchair adventurers can find out about the physical, geological, and climatological conditions of the poles; their unique flora, fauna, and human inhabitants; the history of the greatest polar expeditions, the exciting scientific research being conducted there, and what changing climate conditions might mean to the future of this vast and fascinating realm.

Author : Sharon R. Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787854086
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Guide written by Sharon R. Chester and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, size, habitat, range, scientific name, and the unique characteristics that enablethese organisms to survive in the extreme conditions of the Far North.