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Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Snow. In Japan it is Yuki-onna - 'a goddess'. In Icelandic, Hundslappadrífa - 'flakes as big as a dog's paw'. In Hawai'ian, snow is hau - 'mother of pearl', but also 'love'. Every language and culture has its own words for the feathery, jewel-like flakes that fall from the sky. From Iceland to Greenlan ...Show more
Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
Snow. Every language has its own words for the feather-like flakes that come from the sky. In Japanese we find Yuki-onna - a 'snow woman' who drifts through the frosted land. In Icelandic falls Hundslappadrifa - 'big as a dog's paw'. And in Maori we meet Huka-rere - 'one of the children of rain and wind ...Show more
The Library of Ice : Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing. Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, accl ...Show more
The Library of Ice - Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Nature
'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow -- I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy e ...Show more
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