The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter-for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul-and also out of the fear that our "democracy of gratification" has irreparably altered the climate.
Read more
Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world, she explores how our very consciousness is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. We share Ehrlich's experience of the thrills of cold, but also her questions: What will happen to us if we are "deseasoned"? If winter ends, will we survive?
Liked The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The Shark and the Albatross: A Filmmaker's Encounters with Wildlife Around the Globe Shares nature, nonfiction, travel -
Autumn Across America: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Autumn Shares nature, travel, nonfiction -
Under the Sea Wind Shares nature, nonfiction, science -
The Wild Places Shares nature, nonfiction, travel
