THE ARCTIC

Title
THE ARCTIC

Personal Author EPSB
FRANCIS LATREILLE

Summary
Photographs and text describe how people live in the Arctic.

Uniform Title
Paradis blanc. English

Year Published
2007

Physical Description
69 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 32 cm.

Note
Translation of: Paradis blanc.

Contents
How were these pictures taken? -- The lands of the far north -- The regions of the far north -- Sea ice in perpetual motion -- Breaking the ice sheet -- The people of the far north -- A long migration toward the east -- Seals populate the ice shelf -- The discovery of the Arctic -- The conquest of the North Pole -- Bitter cold -- The work of the wind -- Dressing warmly -- His majesty the polar bear -- Hunting with the Inuits -- The Inlandis of Greenland -- Cathedrals of ice -- In the wake of the whale -- Color in the night -- The Dolgans : nomads of the tundra -- The reindeer of the tundra -- A day in the life of the Dolgans -- The polar night -- Siberian festival -- The Arctic summer -- A herd of musk oxen -- Pacifying the evil spirits -- A mammoth called Jarkov -- Scientific expeditions -- Heat wave in the Arctic -- The threat to animal life -- The polar world adrift -- The future of the great north.

Subject
SS2U1
 
INUIT
 
ARCTIC
 
ARCTIC REGIONS
 
TRAVEL

Added Author
Guigon, Catherine.
 
Malenfer, Frédéric,

Summary
Photographs and text describe how people live in the Arctic.

ISBN
9780810914285

Publisher
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Institutional Services Schools910.91 GUIBook30706000349544Yellowhead Non-Fiction