Winter
Five Windows on the Season
By Adam Gopnik
(House of Anansi Press, Paperback, 9780887849756, 256pp.)
Publication Date: September 2011
Categories: Social History, Essays
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Description
Gopnik touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from the German romantic landscape to the politics of polar exploration to the science of ice. And in the end, he pays homage to what could be a lost season--and thus, a lost collective cultural history--due to the threat of global warming. 256 pp.
Praise For Winter…
• A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011
"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination … highly recommended." — New York Review of Books
"… a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." — Globe and Mail
"… beautifully written …" — Columbian
"…outstanding…[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." —Toronto Star
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