The hidden life of ice : dispatches from a disappearing world /
Tedesco, M., 1971-
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. - 153 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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.
"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"--
9781615196999 1615196994
2020024422
Ice--History.--Greenland
Glaciers--History.--Greenland
Ice--Microbiology--Greenland.
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. - 153 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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.
"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"--
9781615196999 1615196994
2020024422
Ice--History.--Greenland
Glaciers--History.--Greenland
Ice--Microbiology--Greenland.