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Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three
months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually
uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock
has spent three decades studying the frozen land in order to
understand better the world that lies beneath it. In this luminous
and closely observed account, one of the world's leading experts on
Antarctica introduces the reader to this fascinating world - the
extraordinary wildlife that persists despite the harsh conditions
and the way each of the pieces fit into the puzzle of the intricate
environment: from single-celled organisms to baleen whales, with
leopard seals, penguins, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, and
multicolored sea stars, in between. Now, as temperatures rise, the
fragile ecosystem is under attack. Adelie penguins that have
successfully nested on Antarctic islands for several hundred years
have been nearly wiped out. King crabs that used to populate the
deep seafloor are moving into shallower waters, disturbing the set
order of life there. Lost Antarctica is an appeal to understand and
appreciate the wondrous place at the bottom of the world that we
are on the brink of losing.
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