(Part 2) Best arctic & antarctica history books according to redditors
We found 66 Reddit comments discussing the best arctic & antarctica history books. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
1947 cold snap was suppose to be bad. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irelands-Arctic-Siege-Freeze-1947/dp/0717154483
A First Rate Tragedy is a good book about the party that Amundsen beat to the South Pole.
Here's one he authored a book about
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/30/ernest-shackleton-antarctic-expedition
The reason for the 25 years is that the ice cap reflects lots of solar radiation back into space. Water is much darker and absorbs it instead. When the ice cap disappears you're suddenly absorbing much more heat.
Source: A Farewell to Ice by veteran Arctic researcher Peter Wadham.
It's got a lot. It holds the global seed vault. And a lot of polar bears. It was also featured in that movie The Golden Compass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
Relevant (and good) book:
http://smile.amazon.com/Four-Against-Arctic-Shipwrecked-Years/dp/0743272315/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413064130&sr=8-1&keywords=arctic+survival+svalbard