The Last Winter: The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the World
Autor Porter Foxen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2022
In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world.
This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in northern Maine.
Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last Winter showcases a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change-which may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472270948
ISBN-10: 1472270940
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Wildfire
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472270940
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Wildfire
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
deeply researched, beautifully written, adventure-filled book
Before the snowpack vanishes and the glaciers melt away, The Last Winter takes us on a tour of all we are poised to lose - the beauties and elations and wonders, both natural and human, to be found in frigid latitudes and altitudes. Fox writes perceptively and knowledgably but also lovingly about the places and people he encounters along the way .
As winter vanishes, so do the many cultures forged by glacier, ice floe, and permafrost. Porter Fox has written an imaginative and deeply personal travelogue that reveals how climate change is not only a threat to our future, but a threat to our past.
The importance of ice was not as clear to me as it should have been. It is now. This is a rousing, literate, multi-continental tour of the cryosphere. Check it out: the end of winter, if we fail to prevent it, will be the end of the world as we know it.
The Last Winter is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. It ' s filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from a Paul Theroux or Peter Mathiessen novel. Riveting, unforgettable, and important .
Before the snowpack vanishes and the glaciers melt away, The Last Winter takes us on a tour of all we are poised to lose - the beauties and elations and wonders, both natural and human, to be found in frigid latitudes and altitudes. Fox writes perceptively and knowledgably but also lovingly about the places and people he encounters along the way .
As winter vanishes, so do the many cultures forged by glacier, ice floe, and permafrost. Porter Fox has written an imaginative and deeply personal travelogue that reveals how climate change is not only a threat to our future, but a threat to our past.
The importance of ice was not as clear to me as it should have been. It is now. This is a rousing, literate, multi-continental tour of the cryosphere. Check it out: the end of winter, if we fail to prevent it, will be the end of the world as we know it.
The Last Winter is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. It ' s filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from a Paul Theroux or Peter Mathiessen novel. Riveting, unforgettable, and important .
Notă biografică
Porter Fox was born in New York and raised on the coast of Maine. His book Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border was published by W.W. Norton July 3, 2018. He lives, writes, teaches and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal Nowherein Brooklyn. His work has been widely published in a range of sources and in 2021 he won a Western Press Association award for a two-part feature about climate change and a Lowell Thomas Award for an excerpt from Northland. In 2013 he published DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow. The book was featured on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Review and in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.