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RECORD NUMBER: 14 OF 14| Main Title | The melting world : a journey across America's vanishing glaciers / | |||||||||||
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| Author | White, Christopher P., | |||||||||||
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2013 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 827256972 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780312546281; 0312546289 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Glaciers--Montana--Glacier National Park ; Glaciers--Rocky Mountains ; Global warming--Montana--Glacier National Park ; Global warming--Rocky Mountains ; Climatologists--United States--Biography ; Ecologists--United States--Biography ; Glacier National Park (Mont)--Environmental conditions ; Rocky Mountains--Environmental conditions | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | White, Christopher P,--1956---Travel ; Fagre, Dan | |||||||||||
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| Edition | First edition. | |||||||||||
| Collation | 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268). |
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| Contents Notes | Year One: Into the Cirque -- Year Two & Three: Through the Looking Glass -- Year Four, Week One: The Falcon and the Falconer -- Year Four, Week Two: The Cascade Effect -- Year Four, Week Three: Fire and Ice -- Year Four, Week Four: Things Fall Apart -- Year Four, Week Five: A Thousand Words -- Year Five, Epilogue: The Widening Gyre. Documents concerning evidence of adverse climate change in the Rocky Mountains, where climate scientist and ecologist Dan Fagre reveals how a rapid decline of alpine glaciers is threatening the mountain ecosystem. |