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Winter : five windows on the season / Adam Gopnik.
- Title
- Winter : five windows on the season / Adam Gopnik.
- Author
- Gopnik, Adam
- Publication
- Toronto : Anansi, c2011.
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- Description
- xiii, 256 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "A taste for winter, a love of winter--'a mind for winter'--is for many a part of the modern condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles makes the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik's kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of northern culture."--P. [4] of cover.
- Series Statement
- CBC Massey lecture series
- Uniform Title
- CBC Massey lecture series.
- Subject
- Note
- "Fifty years CBC Massey lectures"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-241) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Romantic winter -- Radical winter -- Recuperative winter -- Recreational winter -- Remembering winter.
- ISBN
- 9780887849749
- 0887849741
- 9780887849756 (pbk.)
- 088784975X
- LCCN
- ^^2011929922
- OCLC
- 732948892
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library