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On thin ice : the changing world of the polar bear / Richard Ellis
Bib ID 4772965
Format BookBook
Author
Ellis, Richard, 1938-
 
Edition 1st ed. 
Description New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 
400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 9780307270597 (hbk.) 
Summary

A profile of the habitat and life cycle of the polar bear covers he species' venerated position in Inuit culture, its reproductive habits, and the environmental factors that are compromising its ability to survive.

Full contents
  • Europeans "discover" the polar bear (and the bear discovers them)
  • The great ice bear
  • Polar bear nations
  • The Eskimo and the polar bear
  • Hunting the hunter
  • In the zoo and the circus
  • On the whiteness of the bear
  • Global warming and the bear
  • Is the polar bear doomed?.
 
Notes

"Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-381) and index.

Subjects Polar bear.  |  Polar bear - Effect of human beings on.  |  Global warming.  |  Global environmental change.

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