The story of glaciers, wilderness and people, at a moment when this relationship is about to change forever
Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at the University of Bristol and also holds an adjunct professorship at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has led more than twenty-five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.
Ice Rivers is a remarkable book. For those of us who have had the
privilege of scrambling across glaciers around the world, this work
will bring back sharp memories of their otherworldly beauty. For
those who haven't, this is the perfect introduction into a crucial
and vanishing part of our planet. Jemma Wadham works to understand,
to bear witness, and to protect - it's hard to imagine a more fully
human undertaking
*Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature*
A compelling warning about the realities of climate change... Also
a highly readable memoir
*Sunday Times*
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