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.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Institutional Services Schools | 910.91 GUI | Book | 30706000349544 | Yellowhead Non-Fiction |