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Frozen Planet: A World Beyond Imagination
Frozen Planet: A World Beyond Imagination    
Format Hardcover
Catalogue No. 978-1-55407-991-9
Pages 312
Language English only
Price $39.95
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Written by Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz.
Published by Firefly Books Ltd., 2012.

Description:
Frozen Planet is a remarkable record of life at the ends of the Earth. Beautiful colour photographs depict awe-inspiring landscapes and animal behaviour never before seen. Explore the extraordinary lives of polar animals — from penguins and killer whales to polar bears and wolves — and further your understanding of how ice cap melting affects their lives and our own.

Frozen Planet is the companion book to the TV series. It follows the world's best wildlife photographers as they capture animal behavior and landscapes never seen before, including Antarctica's active volcanoes and the previously restricted Russian Arctic. Custom-designed HD cameras allowed undisturbed observation. Traveling by nuclear submarine, military helicopter, icebreaker and snowmobile, the filmmakers endured piercing polar winters and the dangerous summer "melt" to record what may be the dying days of Earth's frozen regions.

Frozen Planet has seven sections:
  • Pole to Pole
  • Spring: Life Wakes Up
  • Summer: Life Multiplies
  • Autumn: Life Retreats
  • Winter: Life Closes Down
  • On Thin Ice
  • Tales from the Poles
It follows four polar residents that reveal the health of the planet and what the future may hold: the polar bear and arctic fox in the north; the Adelie penguin and wandering albatross in the south. "Behind the scenes" segments describe the making of the TV series.

Some of the fascinating stories:
  • Icebergs the size of New York skyscrapers
  • A very rare blond fur seal pup
  • Satellite tagged wandering albatrosses raising their chicks
  • King penguins catching a wave
  • A lone white wolf eyeing a photographer
  • Grass-eating polar bears
  • The creeping glaciers of Svalbard
  • Adelie penguin chicks learning to swim
  • Canada's Barrenlands coming to life in the spring
  • Scuba diving with beluga whales in the Russian Arctic
  • The elusive Greenland shark
  
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