The ice at the end of the world an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future
"Greenland: remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock, population 56,000, in the middle of the North Atlantic. Why do we care so much about it? Because locked within the the vast and frozen "white desert" -- the nickname early explorers gave it -- that covers eighty percent of the land are...
| Main Author: | Gertner, Jon (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the view from above
- The scheme of a lunatic
- Hauling
- Simple and easy
- North by Northeast
- A pure primitive realm
- Thule
- Dynamite
- Digging
- Machine age
- The Americans
- Drilling
- Jesus ice
- Deeper
- Sensing
- A key
- Meltwater season
- Epilogue: the ice clock.