One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole

John Bird
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One Day, One Night offers a riveting account of the challenges, the adventure, the wonder of life at the South Pole Station. This work of narrative non-fiction reveals mind-boggling science, from secrets of climate change locked under the ice, to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time. Immerse yourself in land and skyscapes. Gawk at Polies running to the Geographic South Pole naked when the temperature reaches –101°F. Find yourself bathed in perpetual darkness, frozen into the eight months of winter in the most isolated place on Earth.
Genres: ScienceNonfiction
442 Pages

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