{"product_id":"heart-of-ice","title":"Heart of Ice","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781742237800\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NewSouth Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoisture, temperature, gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth's continents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWild Sea\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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 nd expression. McCann is a magnicent interpreter of Antarctica's powerful yet precarious cryosphere, and how it will critically inuence 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 else\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41525186330757,"sku":"PR402304","price":54.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/heart-of-ice_TNXPV6EN342T.jpeg?v=1771593384","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/heart-of-ice","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}