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Planet Earth
Glacier
A Time-Life Planet Earth book. "God's Great Plow"; The Animated Life of Glaciers; Phantom Fleets of the Polar Seas; Pioneers in Antarctica; A Continental Laboratory; Magnificent Rivers of Ice; A Gallery of Ice-draped Mountains; Contrasting Worlds of Moving Ice; The Glacier's Far-flung Footprints; Tormented Migrations to Doom; Captain Scott's Gifted Chronicler
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176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1920
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December 22, 2019
Well I guess I had to read this book after reading the Ice age volume earlier - they sort of go hand in hand.
I will first of all break with tradition - well sort of after all there is no punch line or spoilers here, its about Glaciers! But I will start with my usual closing comments. If the Ice age book ended (for me at least) on an upbeat message that the cycle of cooling and warming is forever going on and that the earth has its own rhythm that really we (and in fact nearly all living thing) are mere transitory distractions, after all I cannot think of anything living that can have its age measured in the same time spans. Then the Glacier book is rather depressing.
The fact you have so many amazing historic pictures, technically all the images are historic coming from a book that was printed in the mid-80s, is the fact that so many places referred to no long exist or if they do they look dramatically different now. The climate is changing and speaking as a person who has experienced let alone witnessed the changed climate regardless of social impact it is such a shock seeing how the world has changed (and not in a good way) in my life time.
As always there are so truly amazing photographs taking from the vaults of time life but really that just reinforces the earlier comments about how the world has changed.
I will first of all break with tradition - well sort of after all there is no punch line or spoilers here, its about Glaciers! But I will start with my usual closing comments. If the Ice age book ended (for me at least) on an upbeat message that the cycle of cooling and warming is forever going on and that the earth has its own rhythm that really we (and in fact nearly all living thing) are mere transitory distractions, after all I cannot think of anything living that can have its age measured in the same time spans. Then the Glacier book is rather depressing.
The fact you have so many amazing historic pictures, technically all the images are historic coming from a book that was printed in the mid-80s, is the fact that so many places referred to no long exist or if they do they look dramatically different now. The climate is changing and speaking as a person who has experienced let alone witnessed the changed climate regardless of social impact it is such a shock seeing how the world has changed (and not in a good way) in my life time.
As always there are so truly amazing photographs taking from the vaults of time life but really that just reinforces the earlier comments about how the world has changed.
January 7, 2018
Holidays in Iceland got me fascinated with the geology of the place and luckily I had these Time Life books on my shelves from years ago so I got stuck in to the Volcano and Glacier editions. I found this one a harder read than the Volcano one but I think it was perhaps that there were more personal stories in the Volcano edition that pulled you along. That said, this was a great introduction, informative and interesting, for a keen novice like myself.
December 7, 2021
Although a short book, it is very detailed on glaciers with full page photos and diagrams. The last three chapters focus on Antarctica and the various expeditions there, including those of Amundsen and Scott.
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