{"product_id":"antarctica-9798217092024","title":"Antarctica","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.\"--\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eForty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGalileo's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2008 he was named one of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \"Heroes of the Environment.\" He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Del Rey Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749460640018,"sku":"9798217092024","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee9cba05-21de-4022-8188-5307f89a1db0.jpg?v=1764086806","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/antarctica-9798217092024","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}