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SVERKER SÖRLIN
Idioma: Inglés
Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
ISBN: 9781529947892
Editorial: Transworld Digital
Año de edición: 2025
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Overview
A beautiful and profound natural history of snow from the bestselling, award-winning Swedish environmentalist Sverker Sörlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic and existential significance of what is, due to climate-change, fast-becoming a vanishing fact of nature.Selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books on the Environment.Arresting facts and extraordinary insights. Sverker Sörlin is a scholar and writer at the height of his creative powers.Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of LondonSnow. A single word, for an infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air. The study of snow is physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. It is hope – annually renewed. And it is history, too.Earth saw its first snowfall 2.4 billion years ago. The worlds oldest skis, made by hand five thousand four hundred years old, pre-date the pyramids of ancient Egypt. To humanity, snow has variously been an ally and an adversary; an inspiration to countless artists and a place of breathtaking tragedy and survival. But it’s always been there. And now it is melting.In 1927, the snow was already more than nine metres deep on Japans Mount Ibuki when a remarkable 230cm fell in 24 hours, bringing about the greatest depth of snow - 11.82m - ever recorded. Yet it is a fact today that, ironically not only has this mountains resort been forced to close due to lack of snow, most people in the world have never been near snow: never felt the soft crunch of snow underfoot, never held snow to see it melt in their hands, let alone stood on a pair of skis.As the seasons lose their rhythm, and whole landscapes risk vanishing, shrinking too our planets ability to reflect sunlight, Swedish environmentalist Sverker Sörlin urges that we take the time to look - really look - at what it is we’re losing, in all its multifaceted wonder. And to question, what comes next?