The Ice Storm: An Historic Record in Photographs of January 1998 - Hardcover

Abley, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771061005 ISBN 13: 9780771061004

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1998

Synopsis

In January 1998, five days of freezing rain, up to 100 millimetres, fell in some parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. About 2 million homes – more than 5 million people – were plunged into darkness for up to a month in the dead of winter. It was, indisputably, the storm of the century.

This book is the definitive story of the ice storm, captured in pictures by Canada’s best news photographers. The following newspapers have combined their resources to make this book: La Presse (Montreal), The Gazette (Montreal), The Ottawa Citizen, Le Nouvelliste (Trois Rivières), Le Droit (Ottawa), The Whig-Standard (Kingston), The Standard Freeholder (Cornwall), The Recorder and Times (Brockville) and La Voix de l’Est (Granby). A portion of the proceeds is donated to charity.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Abley was born in England and grew up in western Canada. A Rhodes scholar at Oxford, he has been a books columnist at the Montreal Gazette and winner of a National Newspaper Award for critical writing. He continues to work at the Gazette as a features writer. In addition to the text for the best-selling photographic book The Ice Storm (1998), he has written two books of poetry, one travel book (Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies, 1986), and the text for Ottmar Bierwagen’s photographic book Heartland (1989). He lives with his wife and two daughters in Pointe Claire, Quebec.

From School Library Journal:

YA-On January 5th it began-the Ice Storm of 1998-leaving hundreds of cities, towns, and villages without power and millions of people without heat or light for days and weeks. Abley has compiled over 200 mostly full-color photographs by 54 photographers from 9 newspapers. These pictures capture the beauty-a surreal landscape of encased forests and glistening rooftops and spires-and devastation-crushed and amputated trees and buckled hydro towers-of the storm. They also show the frailty and heroism of people in the wake of its wreckage. Abley's accompanying text focuses on the event and is full of facts, much like a news report. It lets the spectacular pictures speak for themselves.-Theo Heras, Toronto Public Library

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About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0771061005
• ISBN 13: 9780771061004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192