Going to Extremes (HB) - Couverture rigide

Middleton, Nick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0752220160 ISBN 13 : 9780752220161

Editeur : Channel 4 Books, 2001

Synopsis

This text accompanies a four-part TV series in which Nick Middleton spends a month in the world's coldest, hottest, wettest and driest inhabited places. Nick Middleton considers why people settled in these palces, how they manage to live under such difficult conditions, and why on earth they stay. Coldest: Oymyakon in Siberia where the average winter temperature is 47 degrees below zero and the air turns to ice as it hits the air. Hottest: Daloi in Ethiopia where the temperature remains at 94 degrees all year round. Wettest: Mawsynram in India where during the dry season there is a water shortage. Driest: Arica in Chile which has had 14 consecutive years without rain and the only source of water is fog collected in nets stretched across the desert.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nick Middleton is a geographer, writer and presenter of television documentaries. He teaches at Oxford University, where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College. A Royal Geographical Society award-winning author, he works, teaches and communicates on a wide variety of geographical, travel and environmental issues for a broad range of audiences, from policy-makers to five year-old children. He is also the author of several travel books, including the stunning gift book An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist, and the bestseller Going to Extremes, which was part of a number of television series he wrote and presented for Channel 4 on extreme environments and the people who live in them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Channel 4 Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752220160
• ISBN 13: 9780752220161
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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