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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : The Experiment, 2020Description: 153 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781615196999
  • 1615196994
Uniform titles:
  • Ghiaccio. English
Subject(s):
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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 551.3109 T256 Available 33111009757457
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 551.3109 T256 Available 33111010408488
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 551.3109 T256 Available 33111009020906
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Marco Tedesco is a world-leading expert on Arctic ice decline and climate change. In The Hidden Life of Ice , he invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day in the field, he unearths the surprising secrets just beneath the icy surface--from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to the fantastically weird microorganisms that live in freezing cryoconite holes--as well as critical clues about the future of our planet.



Not just a student of its secrets, Tedesco is an acolyte of the Arctic's beauty--its "magnificence and fragility," as Elizabeth Kolbert writes in her foreword. Alongside the sobering facts on climate change, Tedesco shares stunning photographs of this surreal landscape-- as well as captivating legends of Greenland's earliest local populations, epic deeds of long-ago Arctic explorers, and his own moving reflections.



This is an urgent tribute to an awe-inspiring place that may be gone all too soon.

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.

"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.

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.

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