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Author Rozell, Ned, 1963-

Title Finding Mars / Ned Rozell.

Publication Info. Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Not like the other boys -- Fourth rock from the sun -- Wretched little port -- Empty spots -- Wind is the eskimo's friend -- Dare to fail -- Usually, you die -- Secret of the permafrost -- To the end of the Earth -- The wine-dark sea -- The night of winter -- Some kind of big changing.
Summary Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher-and inveterate wanderer-Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa's fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen in the ice near Barrow. It's an always on-the-move account of a man driven n.
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Subject Yoshikawa, K. (Kenji)
Yoshikawa, K. (Kenji)
Yoshikawa, K. Yoshikawa, Kenji.
Scientists -- Japan -- Biography.
Scientists.
Japan.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Permafrost -- Research -- Alaska.
Permafrost.
Research.
Alaska.
Alaska -- Climate.
Climatology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Rozell, Ned, 1963- Finding Mars. Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, ©2011 9781602231221 (DLC) 2010028028 (OCoLC)649700150
ISBN 9781602231238 (electronic book)
1602231230 (electronic book)
9781602231221
1602231222