THE ARCTIC

Título
THE ARCTIC

FRANCIS LATREILLE

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

Título uniforme
Paradis blanc. English

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2007

Descripción física
69 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 32 cm.

Nota general
Translation of: Paradis blanc.

Contenido
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.

Término de la materia
SS2U1
 
INUIT
 
ARCTIC
 
ARCTIC REGIONS
 
TRAVEL

Autor añadido
Guigon, Catherine.
 
Malenfer, Frédéric,

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

ISBN
9780810914285

Información de publicación
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007.


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