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Thinking like an iceberg
- Title
- Thinking like an iceberg / Olivier Remaud ; translated by Stephen Muecke.
- Author
- Remaud, Olivier
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Additional Authors
- Muecke, Stephen, 1951-
- Description
- ix, 182 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book takes us into the fascinating world of icebergs and glaciers to discover what they are really like. Through a series of historical vignettes recalling some of the most tragic and most exhilarating encounters between human beings and these gigantic pieces of matter, and through vivid descriptions of their cycles of birth and death, Olivier Remaud shows that these entities are teeming with many forms of life and that there is a deep continuity between iceberg life and human life, a complex web of reciprocal interconnections that can lead from the deadliest to the most vital. And precisely because there is this continuity, icebergs and glaciers tell us something important about life itself - namely, that it thrives in the most unexpected of places, even where there seems to be no life at all. At a time when we are increasingly aware that the melting of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice is one of the many disastrous consequences of global warming, this beautiful meditation is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of all life and the fragility of the Earth's ecosystems"--Publisher's description.
- Uniform Title
- Penser comme un iceberg. English
- Alternative Title
- Penser comme un iceberg.
- Iceberg
- Subject
- Note
- "Originally published in French as Penser comme un iceberg © Actes Sud, 2020"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- Prologue: They are coming! -- Through the looking glass -- The eye of the glacier -- Unexpected lives -- Social snow -- A less lonely world -- Thinking like an iceberg -- Epilogue: Return to the ocean.
- ISBN
- 9781509551460
- 1509551468
- 9781509551477
- 1509551476
- 9781509551484 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021949632
- 99992454237
- OCLC
- on1284287624
- 1284287624
- SCSB-14450838
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries