{"product_id":"book-cl60","title":"The Library of Ice","description":"‘A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow — I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy ends of the Earth’ \u003cb\u003eDan Richards\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eClimbing Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, acclaimed poet and writer \u003cb\u003eNancy Campbell \u003c\/b\u003esets out from the world’s northernmost museum – at Upernavik in Greenland – to explore it in all its facets. From the Bodleian Library archives to the traces left by the great polar expeditions, from remote Arctic settlements to the ice houses of Calcutta, she examines the impact of ice on our lives at a time when it is itself under threat from climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Library of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a fascinating and beautifully rendered evocation of the interplay of people and their environment on a fragile planet, and of a writer’s quest to define the value of her work in a disappearing landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘The Library of Ice \u003c\/i\u003einstantly transported me elsewhere… This \u003cb\u003eluminous book\u003c\/b\u003e is both\u003cb\u003e beautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eastute \u003c\/b\u003ein its observations, turning the pages of time backwards and revealing, like the archive of the earth’s climate stored in layers of solidified water, the embedded meanings of the world’s icy realms. It is a book \u003cb\u003eas urgently relevant as it is wondrous\u003c\/b\u003e’ \u003cb\u003eJulian Hoffman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘An \u003cb\u003eextraordinary \u003c\/b\u003ework not only for the perspicacity and innate experience of the author who leads the reader carefully across intertwined icy tracks of crystallised geographics, melting myths and frozen exploration histories, but through her own tender diagnostics of what reading ice can show us in these times … Perilous in its scope, exacting in its observation, wild in intellect, \u003ci\u003eThe Library of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e captures the reader’s attention almost as if caught in ice itself’ \u003cb\u003eKirsten Macgillivray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘This is \u003cb\u003etravel writing to be treasured\u003c\/b\u003e. A biography of ice, the element that has another life, with\u003cb\u003e hard facts thawed and warmed by a poet's voice\u003c\/b\u003e. Campbell's writing is companionable, curious, deeply researched and with no bragging about the intrepidity that has taken her between winter-dark Greenland, Polar libaries, Scottish curling rinks, Alpine glaciers and Henry Thoreau's pond at Walden’ \u003cb\u003eJasper Winn, author of \u003ci\u003ePaddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347193045296,"sku":"BDcl60","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cl60-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779086768","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cl60","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}