Seeds on ice : Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault / Cary Fowler ; photographs by Mari Tefre, with additional photographs by Jim Richardson.

Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fowler, Cary (Author)
Other Authors:	Tefre, Mari (Photographer) Richardson, Jim, 1947 December 5- (Photographer)
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, CT : Prospecta Press, an imprint of Easton Studio Press, [2016]
Edition:	First Edition.
Subjects:	Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Svalbard (Norway) Climatic changes > Risk management. Seeds > Climatic factors. Biodiversity > Climatic factors. Seed supply. Germplasm resources, Plant. Germplasm resources conservation. Germplasm resources > Storage. Svalbard. Seeds > Storage. Illustrated works.
Genre:	Illustrated works.
Physical Description:	160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Format:	Book

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