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Author : Shari Fox Gearheard
Release : 2017-05-31
Genre : Arctic peoples
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 856/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Meaning of Ice by : Shari Fox Gearheard
Download or read book The Meaning of Ice written by Shari Fox Gearheard. This book was released on 2017-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork and photographs
Author : Dahr Jamail
Release : 2020-03-10
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 056/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Ice by : Dahr Jamail
Download or read book The End of Ice written by Dahr Jamail. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us "of how magical the planet we're about to lose really is" (Bill McKibben) With a new epilogue by the author After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from Alaska to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet's wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before. Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.
Author : Ellyn Kestnbaum
Release : 2003-05-21
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culture on Ice by : Ellyn Kestnbaum
Download or read book Culture on Ice written by Ellyn Kestnbaum. This book was released on 2003-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth, critical look at figure skating.
Author : Arthur Geisert
Release : 2011
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ice by : Arthur Geisert
Download or read book Ice written by Arthur Geisert. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wordless tale depicts a pig community's hunt for ice in the Arctic when the weather on their island becomes too hot for them to bear.
Author : Klaus Dodds
Release : 2018-06-15
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 475/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ice by : Klaus Dodds
Download or read book Ice written by Klaus Dodds. This book was released on 2018-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors—and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water to our blue home. But our outlook need not be cosmic to see ice’s importance. Here today and gone tomorrow in many parts of the temperate world, ice is a perennial feature of polar and mountainous regions, where it has long shaped human culture. But as climates change, ice caps and glaciers melt, and waters rise, more than ever this frozen force touches at the core of who we are. As Dodds reveals, ice has played a prominent role in shaping both the earth’s living communities and its geology. Throughout history, humans have had fun with it, battled over it, struggled with it, and made money from it—and every time we open our refrigerator doors, we’re reminded how ice has transformed our relationship with food. Our connection to ice has been captured in art, literature, movies, and television, as well as made manifest in sport and leisure. In our landscapes and seascapes, too, we find myriad reminders of ice’s chilly power, clues as to how our lakes, mountains, and coastlines have been indelibly shaped by the advance and retreat of ice and snow. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Ice is an informative, thought-provoking guide to a substance both cold and compelling.
