Title:
The hidden life of ice : dispatches from a disappearing world / Marco Tedesco with Alberto Flores d'Arcais ; translated by Denise Muir ; foreword by Elizabeth Kolbert.
ISBN:
9781615196999
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : The Experiment, 2020.
Physical Description:
153 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published in Italy as Ghiaccio by il Saggiatore in 2019.
First published in English in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC, in 2020.
Includes index.
Contents:
Origins of ice -- Mother Greenland -- The color of Greenland -- Forgotten heroes -- Arctic big brother -- Icy abysses -- A hole in the ice -- Polar camel -- The world through a lens -- Northwest passage -- Freedom.
Summary:
"A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice--its secret history and dire future. Tedesco unearths its secrets--from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperature in cryoconite holes--and weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, epic tales of Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1159616874
Availability:
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