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Snow: beauty, science, and loss, a vanishing wonder of nature.
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    400 pages

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    8 November 2025

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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
ISBN-10:1529947871
Author:Sverker Sörlin, Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Doubleday
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:8 November 2025
Weight:500g
Dimensions:222mm x 138mm x 40mm
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Critics Review

Arresting facts and extraordinary insights. Sverker Sörlin is a scholar and writer at the height of his creative powers. – Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of IceAn eclectic meditation. * Financial Times: Best Books on the Environment *

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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