"Life at the Extremes"
by Francis Ashcroft
Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-at-Extremes-Frances-Ashcroft/dp/0006551254/
Reading history and reviews
Finished in 2006
What a brilliant book! All about how animals (and people) adapt to living in environments with extremes of heat, cold, pressure and so on. I thoroughly enjoyed this and I'm still boring people with the trivia that I learnt as a result of reading it.