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This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.

Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world, she explores how our very consciousness is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. We share Ehrlich’s experience of the thrills of cold, but also her questions: What will happen to us if we are “deseasoned”? If winter ends, will we survive?

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This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter--for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul--and out of the fear that our "democracy of gratification" has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme points--from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world--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, "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." We share Ehrlich's experience of the thrills of cold and also her questions: What will happen to us if we are "deseasoned"? If winter ends, will we survive?

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Gretel Ehrlich is the author of This Cold Heaven and The Solace of Open Spaces, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She divides her time between California and Wyoming.

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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1400034353
  • ISBN 13 9781400034352
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages224
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