Snow a scientific and cultural exploration
Go on an extraordinary journey across centuries and continents to experience the wonders of snow; from the prehistoric humans that trekked and even skied across it tens of thousands of years ago to the multi-billion-dollar industry behind our moving, making, and playing with snow. Blending accessibl...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atria Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Atria books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A note on units
- Introduction
- Perfect snow
- If polar bears could talk
- Snomo sapiens
- What Brueghel saw
- The wrong kind of snow
- Record-breaking
- Winter of terror
- At play in the snowfields of the gods
- Last rites
- Boutique mountain engineering
- Snowpocalypse
- Snowbusiness
- Snowmads
- The future of snow
- Snow Q&A.
