{"product_id":"antarctica-9780553574029","title":"Antarctica","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.\"--\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauer's \u003ci\u003eInto Thin Air\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world, \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e--both the book and the continent--will become part of the reader's interior landscape.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn't give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAntarctica \u003c\/i\u003ewill take your breath away.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Passionate, informed...vastly entertaining.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Robinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bantam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553574029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.91h x 5.04w x 1.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1999 pg. 1401\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Paperback Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1999 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1998 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e35160 \/ Antarctica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.3 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 31\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kim Stanley Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916936614069,"sku":"9780553574029","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ebaa622c-8bce-490b-a777-b5668e0220f2.jpg?v=1687274117","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/antarctica-9780553574029","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}