{"product_id":"library-of-ice","title":"Library Of Ice","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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‘\u003c\/i\u003eThe writer and poet offers reflections on ice and snow that draw on art, science and history… a dreamlike book.\u003ci\u003e’ – \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘It is a sparkling and wonderful meditation on a substance we must cherish’ \u003cb\u003e– The Independent \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eIt is a pleasant brew infused with elements not only of travel and history, but also of memoir and personal reflection\u003ci\u003e’- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eMs Campbell, a penniless but intrepid traveller, braves miserable bus journeys, freezing rain, dark and intense cold, but still manages to write rapturously of the beauties of the Arctic\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317614715262,"sku":"NW9781471169342","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781471169342.jpg?v=1778722376","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/library-of-ice","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}