The Library of Ice
Readings from a Cold Climate
$25.03
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2019
Summary
‘A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow — I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy ends of the Earth’ Dan Richards, author of Climbing Days
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471169342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471169340 |
| Author: | Nancy Campbell |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell is an award-winning writer, described as ‘a deft, dangerous and dazzling new poet’ by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Her previous book on the polar environment, Disko Bay, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2016. A former magazine editor, she contributes to the Times Literary Supplement, Royal Academy Magazine, and other journals. She has been a Marie Claire ‘Wonder Woman’, a Hawthornden Fellow, and Visual and Performing Artist in Residence at Oxford University. She lives in Oxford.
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