L'antarctique - Royaume des glaces (French Edition), Paperback Book, By: Monteath, Colin

Antarctica is an extraordinary place, at the same time terrible and marvelous, where one can still perceive, compelling, the vibrating force of nature. Colin Monteath, famous reporter from extreme places, leads us through a collection of exclusive images in the Ice Kingdom, to discover a mysterious and fascinating world. continents, the total of continents on the earth's surface is seven. Antarctica is the fifth in order of magnitude. Unknown for centuries, man only provided proof of his existence at the beginning of the 19th century. He was the great Terra Australia Incognita, located somewhere in the Southern Ocean. This continent has never known indigenous populations and it has never was very rarely visited. Essentially still a virgin continent, Antarctica is a place of dazzling beauty and extraordinary biological variety, where flora and fauna have developed interesting life strategies. It is a world of contrasts, cruel and ruthless, where many species struggle energetically to survive. A great writer and photographer, specializing in extreme reporting, tells in this volume the mysteries of this frozen continent. By offering the reader astonishing images of this region where the temperature drops to 40 ° C below zero and winds blowing at 150 kilometers per hour, he accompanies him on the discovery of emperor penguins and Adélie penguins, Weddell seals, leopard seals, whales and giant icebergs. Antarctica is an extraordinary place, at the same time terrible and marvelous, where one can still perceive, compelling, the vibrating force of nature. Colin Monteath, famous reporter from extreme places, leads us through a collection of exclusive images in the kingdom of ice, to discover a mysterious and fascinating world.