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Article: At The Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions. (Books of Note).
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- November 1, 2002
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By Kieran Mulvaney; Island Press/S hearwater Books, Washington, D.C., 2001; 272 pp., $24.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-908-3)
Most outsiders imagine the polar regions as remote, barren expanses of frozen wilderness. At the Ends of the Earth, however, uses engaging and informative narrative to illustrate the extrapolar world's interactions with the Arctic and Antarctic and the often calamitous repercussions for human and ecological systems.
Kieran Mulvaney takes the reader as far back as ancient history, chronicling how outsiders have shaped--and have been shaped by--their encounters with the poles through European and British exploration, commercial whaling and ...