A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling thrillers, Ice Hunt carries readers to the top of the world, where nothing can survive...except fear.

Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted

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Describes how some animals survive in frigid regions, including muskrats, walruses, and the Arctic fox.

In Poles Apart, Galen Rowell takes us on an exhilarating visual journey to the top and the bottom of the world, using the parallel visions of his camera to reveal the fascinating differences between these polar opposites. The Arctic, home of the polar bear, takes its name from the Greek arktos, meaning bear. The Antarctic - anti-arktos - is a realm devoid of bears, a place where penguins live on the ice unthreatened by land predators. Other differences...

Describes how humans, plants, and animals survive at the North and South Poles, the effect of human industrial activity on the polar landscapes, and how changes in the world's weather patterns affect the Poles.

"Using unique Photicular technology, Polar shows a hauntingly beautiful yet fragile world, caught forever in moments of living motion"--Page 4 of cover.

Readers can explore Earth's polar regions where they'll meet extraordinary animals that survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of these icy worlds and learn about magnificent natural marvels that make life fascinating on, above, and under the ice.

A comprehensive look at the arctic tundra and polar desert biomes, examining their climate, plants, animals, people, and future, plus detailed views of some famous or important cold regions.

Contains fifteen prose stories about polar exploration by a variety of authors, including Barry Lopez, Nancy Mitford, Richard E. Byrd, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and others.