The Crystal Desert

The Crystal Desert by David G Campbell Md

THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.

Campbell has worked on all seven continents as a teacher, ecologist, and explorer. He has won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Prize, the PEN Martha Albrand Award, the Burroughs Medal, and the Lannan Award for Nonfiction for his book The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. Dr. Campbell is a biology professor and the Henry R. Grinnell College's Luce Professor of Nations and the Global Environment.