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40 pp.
| Scholastic
| April, 2001
|
TradeISBN 0-439-24134-0$$15.95
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4-6
Along with considerable data about woolly mammoths, this book recounts the 1999 expedition to excavate a woolly mammoth preserved whole in Siberian permafrost. Named Jarkov for his nine-year-old nomadic discoverer, this animal offers unprecedented opportunity for study. The interesting story is well illustrated with color photos and paintings but told with inexplicable tense shifts and busy graphics. Ind.