Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have another misty, nostalgic baseball book to wedge onto a crowded and highly literary shelf. Didn't any skinny kids with library cards go bowling, years ago? But never mind. This genial and shaggily told first novel is not only one of the most artful fictions of the past couple of seasons but also one of the most beguiling stories, which are not always the same thing...
...completely hostile to life. Even at the height of summer, the scene is one of frigid desolation. To the west lies a saltwater bay whose surface is frozen solid. Beyond the bay loom glittering glaciers and towering, rocky peaks. On the south and east rises a blinding white shelf of permanent ice, so thick that it grinds against the seabed far below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach 320 kph (200 m.p.h.) and temperatures can plunge below -85 degrees...
...fish from ice holes to study the unique organic antifreeze that keeps these sea dwellers alive. Volcanologists braved the knifelike winds and choking fumes atop Mount Erebus to learn what kinds of gases and particles Antarctica's largest volcano emits. At Williams Field, a runway on the Ross Ice Shelf, a multidisciplinary team prepared to launch a huge helium balloon. Its purpose: to follow circumpolar winds around the entire continent, gathering data on cosmic rays and solar flares and testing the behavior of high-density computer chips in the intense radiation of the upper atmosphere. And deep in the interior...