Winter

Adam Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik's kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture. This deluxe 50th anniversary edition includes full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts.

שנה

2011

סדרה

CBC Massey Lectures

הוצאה

House of Anansi Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780887849749

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata