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Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic

Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic

by Myron Arms

  • SCIENCE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 267 PAGES

An account of a sailing voyage from Newfoundland across the Davis Strait to Greenland aboard a 50-foot sloop. The book combines a log of the voyage with research on ice cover, ocean currents and climactic change, in part an attempt to explain an unusually bad year for ice in the Davis Strait in 1991.  (ARC93, $12.95)

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