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Title On thin ice : the changing world of the polar bear / Richard Ellis.
Author Ellis, Richard, 1938-
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  599.786 ELL    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description 400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Note "Borzoi book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-381) and index.
Contents Europeans "discover" the polar bear (and the bear discovers them) -- The great ice bear -- Polar bear nations -- The Eskimo and the polar bear -- Hunting the hunter -- In the zoo and the circus -- On the whiteness of the bear -- Global warming and the bear -- Is the polar bear doomed?.
Subject Polar bear.
Polar bear -- Effect of human beings on.
Global warming.
Global environmental change.
ISBN 9780307270597 : $28.95
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