Heart of Ice

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Moisture temperature gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth's continents.</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Heart of Ice</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time navigating entangled stories of ice and rock humans animals and other species through the prism of Antarctica's ice. Joy McCann - author of the internationally acclaimed </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Wild Sea</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> - eloquently draws on a vast body of scientific and historical research to explore how Antarctica's ice sheets its glaciers ice shelves and sea ice have been imagined inhabited and invested with meaning over time. She invites readers to see this vast icy realm in a different way - as a vibrant storied multispecies environment and a powerful agent that has shaped (and continues to shape) our history and our planet.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'In</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Heart of Ice</em> Joy McCann has created something remarkable - a meticulously researched and intellectually expansive exploration of Antarctica and its many meanings shimmering with the transformative power of poetry.' - James Bradley author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Deep Water</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'<em>Heart of Ice</em> is a visionary work of scholarship. The expansive scales of time and space in the narrative of polar ice require all the skills of human empathy to find expression. McCann is a magnificent interpreter of Antarctica's powerful yet precarious cryosphere and how it will critically influence our planet's ecosystem. An essential guidebook to a continent the whole world is watching vital reading for any human whose research or desires draw them to the southern latitudes and for all those elsewhere curious about this mysterious continent and concerned for its future.' - Nancy Campbell author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>The Library of Ice</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'Part guide to a place few of us can visit part celebration of all that ice is Joy McCann shows us Antarctica beyond the usual explorers and heroics. From penguins and krill to great glaciers and the world beneath sea ice this book is a beautiful encounter with the southern pole.' - Bathsheba Demuth author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Floating Coast.</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p>