The Ice

“‘For nearly 200 years, explorers, scientists and first-rank writers have been attempting to come to terms with Antarctica through language. Stephen Pyne’s magnificent book, The Ice, must be numbered amont the finest of these attempts … Pyne writes with breathtaking versatility and range of knowledge about the other aspects of Antarctica: its science, its exploration, the art and literature it has inspired, and its geopolitics. Each section is written in a unique hybrid of science, history, nature writing and meditation. One of the finest achievements of this fine book is that it makes scientific language sing, turning it into something approaching incantation’ Robert Macfarlane, Spectator”