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"Peter Marchand believes that winter is unfairly misunderstood, a season associated with ""stillness, darkness, and death."" Yet as each spring affirms, living things somehow manage to reappear. Since 1987, when the first edition appeared and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the year's 101 Best Sci-Tech Books, Marchand has been treating thousands of readers to a winter world that is very much alive. Now in this enlarged third edition, he offers a brand new chapter adding complete information on three major animal groups: northern cervids (deer, elk, moose, and caribou); semiaquatic mammals (beaver, otter, mink, and muskrat); and gallinaceous birds (grouse and ptarmigan). Experts and novices alike will find Life in the Cold indispensable and enjoyable."

Full Product Details

Author:   Libby Walker ,  Peter J. Marchand
Publisher:   University Press of New England
Imprint:   University Press of New England
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780874517859

ISBN 10:   0874517850
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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An ideal entry to winter ecology. It provides basic information, in a clear manner, about snowpack, plant and animal mechanisms of winter survival on land and in fresh water, plant-animal interactions in the cold, and human reactions to cold . . . Should be in all undergraduate and public libraries where people encounter snow and ice. --Choice

Author Information

PETER J. MARCHAND has devoted much of the last 20 years to the research and teaching of winter ecology. Founder of the winter ecology program at the Center for Northern Studies in Wolcott, VT, he teaches winter ecology at The Colorado College. He is also the author of Autumn: A Season of Change.

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