Book description
A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change
āJon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.āāElizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prizeāwinning authorā¦
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This book had me shivering. Every chapter introduced another character and another set of often frightening but exhilarating arctic adventures spanning more than 100 years.
I found myself imagining what it must have felt like to cross Greenlandās ice on foot or to have spent the winter living in a rat warren of snow caves at the summit of the ice sheet with the Wegner expedition over the winter of 1930-1931.
An excellent read with well-referenced details and history galore. I couldnāt put it down and read the whole book in two nights.
From Paul's list on Greenland and other Arctic destinations.
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