A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
Jon Gertner is a journalist, historian and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory (Penguin, 2012) was a New York Times bestseller and described as 'riveting' by the New York Times, 'fascinating' by Slate, and 'compelling' by the Wall Street Journal.
Penetrating and engrossing . . . a captivating, essential book to
add to the necessarily burgeoning literature on global warming.
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
Deeply engrossing and enlightening
*Booklist (starred review)*
The Ice at the End of the World is a masterpiece of reportage and
storytelling. What Gertner has found on Greenland's remote glaciers
is a harrowing tale of extremity and survival, as well as a
harbinger of our own precarious future here on earth. Equal parts
science, adventure, and history, this important book is a
revelation, one that lingered for me long after turning the last
page.
*Michael Paterniti, author of The Telling Room*
Jon Gertner guides us on a perilous and fascinating journey to the
remote island that lies at the epicenter of our understanding of
climate change. With compelling prose and lucid scientific
explanation, he tracks the explorers and scientists who, over two
centuries, have tried to fathom the immensity and mysteries of
Greenland's inland ice. Both enlightening and disturbing, The Ice
at the End of the World takes us on a gripping adventure into the
thawing heart of global warming.
*Peter Stark, author of Astoria*
Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even
explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important
book.
*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth
Extinction*
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