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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold


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Gretel Ehrlich is a woman who loves extremes--extreme weather; extreme cold--is exhilarated by the challenges they present, and is keenly alive to sensation and impression at every turn. In The Future of Ice, she travels to extreme points (from Tierra del Fuego to the top of the world) in her quest to understand the complex, primal nature of cold; the forces that are destroying the season of winter; and why the chaotic rhythms of weather are becoming even more disruptive. Ehrlich describes how, over the course of a year, she and her cold-loving canine companion experienced firsthand the myriad expressions of cold--wind, water, snow, and ice. She gives us marvelous histories of these elements, of ocean currents and weather cycles. She delves into the ways in which these anarchic forces of cold continually awaken and arouse our attention, uncovering and clarifying--as only she can--a quintessential connection between humans and their physical world. An unexpected and beguiling book.

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"A genre-defying mix of travel writing, scientific fact, poetry and outrage. . . . The book could hardly be more timely or more powerful." -"The Seattle Times" "[Ehrlich] has more words for snow than the Eskimos. . . . So much lyrical power that you'll be dreading spring." -"People Magazine" "Ehrlich is a writer as weathered as the season she chases. . . . And the blustery scenery provides beautiful metaphors for the storms inside her head. . . .The book howls." -"Outside" "What is striking about this intimate lament is Gretel Ehrlich's eloquent use of language to communicate dire facts. . . . [She] conveys the horror with a beauty that makes it hard to turn away. . . . Never preachy, she is instead poetic." -"Chicago Sun-Times" "A powerful book by one of the West's foremost writers on the natural world. . . . An accessible, poetic and urgent frontline report from frigid, yet vibrant territories and ice-laden ocean waters that few of us have visited. . . . Ehrlich painstakingly observes what most others scarcely notice." -"Seattle Post-Intelligencer" "A lament born of facts. . . . Ehrlich paints the moods, landscapes, and lives of sentient beings in some of the most timeless spaces on the planet." -"The Bloomsbury Review" "Objective fact and subjective experience are woven together with lyrical descriptions of place, scientific information and spiritual reflection. . . . Ehrlich gives us a reason to celebrate the beauty of winter and to act to save it." -"E, the Environmental Magazine" "An intimate book that's part celebration of, part lament for and part meditation on cold. . . . The result will inspire, anger and frighten you." -"Santa Barbara News-Press""From the Trade Paperback edition."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780375422515
  • Publisher: Pantheon Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon Books
  • Height: 193 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 037542251X
  • Publisher Date: 09 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Journey Into Cold
  • Width: 141 mm


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