The Last Winter
The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the World
$31.54
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472270948 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472270940 |
| Author: | Porter Fox |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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deeply researched, beautifully written, adventure-filled book– Traveller magazine
deeply researched, beautifully written, adventure-filled book * Traveller magazine *
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 .
– Donovan Hohn, author of MOBY-DUCK AND THE INNER COASTAs 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. – Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTH
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. – William Finnegan, author of BARBARIAN DAYS
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 . – Tom Bissell, author of APOSTLE
About The Author
Porter Fox
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 Nowhere in 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.
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