The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold

The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold

This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlichâ‚¬s love for winterâ‚¬"for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soulâ‚¬"and out of the fear that our â‚¬Å“democracy of gratificationâ‚¬Â has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme pointsâ‚¬"from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the worldâ‚¬"in her quest to understand the complex, primal nature of cold.

Over the course of a year, Ehrlich and her cold-loving canine companion experience firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, and she gives us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. Ehrlich explores how our very awareness, our consciousness, is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. As she writes, â‚¬Å“Weather streamed into my nose, mouth, eyes, and ears and circulated inside my brain. . . . A gust can shove one impulse into another; a blizzard erases a line of action; a sandstorm permeates inspiration; rain is a form of sleep. Lightning makes scratch marks on brains; hail gouges out a nesting place, melts, and waters the seed of an idea that can germinate into idiocy, a joke, or genius.â‚¬Â We share Ehrlichâ‚¬s experience of the thrills of cold and also her questions: What will happen to us if we are â‚¬Å“deseasonedâ‚¬Â? If winter ends, will we survive?
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2004-11-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375422515

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2004-11-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375422515

The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold

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