Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places (2009) by Bill Streever is a nonfiction book about cold in nature, science and history. Streever, a biologist who lives in Alaska, follows cold through a year, from a swim in an Arctic pond in July to a winter of ice and snow. Along the way he covers avalanches, glaciers, ice ages, animals that survive freezing temperatures, the history of refrigeration and polar expeditions such as Shackleton's, mixing personal experience with research and stories from explorers and scientists.
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- Martha Stewart: “To familiarize myself with the climate, I decided to read an extraordinary book, Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places. It's a captivating account of the life, history, and ecology of extreme and inhospitably cold climates.”