| THIN ICE Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains Mark Bowen New York: Henry Holt & Co., October 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8050-6443-8 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8050-6443-5 | 463pp. | HC/FCI | $30.00 | |
| Page 56: | "Nineteen seventy-eight was an uneventful year." |
| Unlike most numbers, a calendar year at the beginning of a sentence does not have to be spelled out. |
| Page 87: | "Even a vacuum radiates, the most famous example being the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which permeates all space and is believed to be a remnant of the Big Bang." |
| "Believed to be"? Why does a physicist have doubt about this?. |
| Page 198: | "The largest of the twelve valleys is the northernmost Lambayeque, about a hundred miles north of the former capital." |
| Missing colon: S/B "the northernmost:". |
| Page 299: | "Less fortunate nations, especially those with ancient emnities with their neighbors, may initiate in struggles for access to food, clean water, or energy." |
| Extra word: S/B "initiate". |
| Page 346: | "One of our secondary objectives was to assess the prospects for flying the balloon that had failed on Sajam ..." |
| A rare typo: S/B "on Sajama". |
| Page 383: | "The city of Akkad was located in southern Mesopotamia, at a strategic spot on the plane between the Tigris and Euphrates..." |
| Another rare typo: S/B "on the plain". |
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