Sno
a history
$52.15
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2025
Summary
The Vanishing Wonder: A Meditation on Snow
A beautiful and profound appreciation of snow from Swedish environmentalist Sverker Sörlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic, and existential significance of what is fast-becoming a vanishing fact of nature.
Snow. A single word for an infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air. The study of snow is physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry, and art. It is hope – annually renewed. And it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529947878 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529947871 |
| Author: | Sverker Sörlin, Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Sverker Sörlin
Sverker Sörlin is an author, historian, and science communicator. He is currently Professor of Environmental History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and during his career has worked with universities and institutes in Berkeley, Princeton, Cambridge, Vancouver, Cape Town, Oslo, and others. As a public intellectual he is a defining voice in Swedish public affairs, writing, broadcasting and as a science policy advisor to the Swedish government. His more than forty books include bestselling literary non-fiction, biographies, academic books, journalism, and personal essays on everything from climate change, the Anthropocene, and Charles Darwin to gout, popular education, and cross country skiing. In 2004 he received the August Award for Non-fiction, Sweden’s pre-eminent literary award, and in 2024 the Inge Jonsson Prize, awarded by ‘The Nine Foundation’ for outstanding non-fiction.
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