The life of permafrost: a history of frozen earth in Russian and Soviet science: by Pey-Yi Chu, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2020, 288 pp., $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4875-0193-8; $56.25 (ePub), ISBN 978-1-4875-1425-9; $56.25 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-4875-1424-2

Robert W. Orttung

The life of permafrost: a history of frozen earth in Russian and Soviet science: by Pey-Yi Chu, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2020, 288 pp., $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4875-0193-8; $56.25 (ePub), ISBN 978-1-4875-1425-9; $56.25 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-4875-1424-2

2021

Robert W. Orttung

This excellent book makes permafrost a lot more exciting than one might imagine it possibly could be, literally bringing the topic to life. Pey-Yi Chu gives the inanimate permafrost agency in these...

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