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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica

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The acclaimed author and biologist shares "a superb personal account [of Antarctica] . . . a remarkable evocation of a land at the bottom of the world" (Boston Globe).

During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.


Between scuba expeditions in Admiralty Ba...