A cultural history of ice and icy places, written between Northern Greenland and the Bodleian Library, in the Alps and at the Kinross Curling Club. NC, a poet, deftly blends memoir, literary criticism and travel writing into a gleaming archive of cold climates on a warming planet. Transporting, delicious.
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
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