ANTARCTICA: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Delving into the history of the continent, Antarctic wildlife, arguments over governance, underwater mountain rangers, and the continent's use in predicting coming global change, this book examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past?and in the process intimations of its alarming future.