Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell

Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell

Snow. Every language has its own words for the magical, mesmerising flakes that fall from the sky. In this exquisite exploration, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow.

'Pithy, clear-eyed.. like so many magical portals, offering fleeting but fascinating glimpses into unfamiliar worlds.' Scotsman; 'A miraculous snow bank of niveous names and knowledge as delicate and multifaceted as the flakes it celebrates. A glittering cloud of Inupiaq, Icelandic, compound Maori, Finnish, Scots, Thai, Hebrew, American Sign Language.' - Dan Richards, author of Outpost: A Wild Journey to the Ends of the Earth

Nancy Campbell is an award-winning writer and artist. Her travels in the Arctic between 2010 and 2017 have resulted in several projects responding to the environment, most recently The Library of Ice: Readings in a Cold Climate (S&S), which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019. Her previous book on the polar environment, Disko Bay, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2016. An illustrated alphabet book, How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic, received the Birgit Skiöld award in 2013. She has been a Marie Claire ‘Wonder Woman’, a Hawthornden Fellow and Artist in Residence at Oxford University. She is currently a Literature Fellow at Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany.

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ISBN 13	9781783964987
ISBN 10	1783964987
Title	Fifty Words for Snow
Author	Nancy Campbell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Elliott & Thompson Limited
Year published	2020-11-05
Number of pages	224
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