Julesburg Public Library

Describes the formation and climate of Arctic lands and discusses the plants, animals, and Eskimos that have adapted to the tundra.

"With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish 'byways and hills' and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. Interweaving personal history with her scrutiny of landscape, Jamie dissects whatever her gaze falls upon--from...

Describes the earth's polar regions and the animals that live there, including the seal, penguin, musk ox, and polar bear.

Introduces the polar bear and other animals that the Inuit sometimes hunt and sometimes just watch, in a counting book that serves as an introduction to the Arctic and the Inuit way of life.

The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean and the ice, is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...