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Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne's Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.

• Foreword by William CrononPreface to the 1998 Paperback EditionThe BergThe PackNo Middle Way: The Exploration of AntarcticaThe ShelfHeart of Whiteness: the Literature and Art of AntarcticaThe GlacierEarth and Ice: The Earth Sciences in AntarcticaThe SheetThe Cold Peace: The Geopolitics of AntarcticaThe SourceAfterwordNotesSourcesIndex

"The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page..Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves physical science with humanistic inquiry and perception. His audacity as well as his presentation warrant admiration, for the implications of The Ice are vast."(New York Times Book Review) "Stephen Pyne has written an imaginative book that combines a geophysical description of Antarctica with a history of attempts to explore and assimilate intellectually this remote and strange continent."(Isis)