Offers twenty-one easy menus that take less than an hour of preparation, and recipes for entrees, salads, soups, sandwiches, side dishes, breads, and desserts Product details Format Hardback | 240 pages Dimensions 225 x 280 x 19.05mm | 25g Publicati...
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards drawing sledges and risking death for scientific knowledge. But polar science has changed drastically over the past century - as Chris Linder shows us, brilliantly, with "Science on Ice". An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adelie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake - studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Each trip finds Linder teamed up with a prominent science journalist, and together their words and pictures reveal the day-to-day details of how science actu...