Land of Extremes: A Pure Historical past of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

This e-book is a complete information to the pure historical past of the North Slope, the one arctic tundra in the US. The primary part offers detailed info on local weather, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second offers a information to the identification and pure historical past of the frequent animals and vegetation and a primer on the human prehistory of the area from the Pleistocene via the mid-twentieth century. The appendix offers the framework for a tour of the pure historical past options alongside the Dalton Freeway, a street connecting the crest of the Brooks Vary with Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and contains mile markers the place vacationers might safely pull off to view geologic formations, vegetation, birds, mammals, and fish. That includes a whole lot of illustrations that help the clear, authoritative textual content, Land of Extremes reveals the arctic tundra as an ecosystem teeming with life.