Bodies from the ice : melting glaciers and the recovery of the past /

Deem, James M.

Bodies from the ice : melting glaciers and the recovery of the past / by James M. Deem. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008. - 58 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 x 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56) and index.

Iceman of the Alps -- Grinding, gliding glaciers -- Dragons in the ice -- Frozen children of the Andes -- The mystery of Mallory -- Another man from a glacier -- Saving the past.

Recounts the discovery of the oldest human mummy in the 1990s by two mountain climbers on the Austrian border, in this exciting volume that reveals how glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice, are now offering up many secrets from the past.

061880045X 9780618800452

2008001868


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