In this Early Bird Nature Books title, readers learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the mosquito. There are more than 2,500 species of mosquitoes all over the world. Some mosquitoes live only in warm places, cold weather kills them. Other mosquitoes live in cold places. The eggs of mosquitoes that live in the Arctic can withstand a very cold winter. Common house mosquitoes live almost everywhere people do.
The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure
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The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time — and all odds — in this heartpounding true adventure.
For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. .
Set on Earth in 2099, when global warming is devastating the planet. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes. But a hidden threat has been preserved beneath Snowglobe 7...
Grade 7 Up—In this prequel to the "His Dark Materials" trilogy (Knopf), Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby meets armored bear Iorek Byrnison for the first time. In this short, fantastic adventure, young Scoresby finds himself on the Arctic island of Novy Odense, a community set in an alternate past world.
