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A National Geographic Best Travel Book of 2020 One of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history.
Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow researchers conduct all-important measurements to understand the dramatic changes afoot on the immense polar ice cap. Following a day in the life of this disappearing world, Tedesco tells us about improbable 'polar camels', cryoconite holes, gigantic meteorite debris, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers and the legends of Greenland's earliest populations.
Through these stories, anecdotes and curiosities, Tedesco passionately explains why this continent is something to be treasured and how it could tip the balance of our fate as a species. Blending science and Tedesco's personal journey,
Ice is a book full of both wonder and urgency.
About the author
Marco Tedesco is an Italian polar scientist whose research focuses on snow, ice and climate change in the polar regions. After receiving his PhD from the University of Naples, he spent five years as a research scientist at NASA, and later founded the Cryosphere Process Laboratory. He is now a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory. Tedesco has been featured in Science and has spoken as a climate change expert for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Wired, and others.Alberto Flores d'Arcais is an Italian journalist, based in Rome and New York. He wrote for newspapers and magazines during the 1970s and became editor-in-chief of Frigidaire in 1980. He has reported on topics like civil wars, drug trafficking, the Arab spring, wars in the Balkans, and collapses of dictatorships since the 1980s; he is also well known for his interviews with world leaders and culture icons. In 2002, Alberto Flores d'Arcais earned the John S. Knight Fellowship for Journalism from Stanford University, and authored New York in 2007.
Summary
The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of an arctic researcher
