The Secret Lives of Glaciers by M Jackson

The Secret Lives of Glaciers by M Jackson

Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. 

Seeking to understand the wild diversity and complexity that exists between people and ice, Jackson lived for a year on the south-eastern coast of Iceland, chronicling in The Secret Lives of Glaciers the cultural and societal impacts of glacier change on local communities. Jackson interviewed hundreds of Icelanders living in close proximity to ice, seeking to understand just what was at stake as the island's ice disappeared. 

Painstakingly detailed, Jackson recounts stories of glaciers told by people throughout the region, stories exploring the often conflicting and controversial plasticity of glaciers, the power glaciers enact in society, the possible sentience of glaciers, and the range of intertwined positive and negative consequences glacier change produces throughout Iceland. The Secret Lives of Glaciers reaches beyond Iceland and touches on changing glaciers everywhere, revealing oft-overlooked interactions between people and ice throughout human history.

The Secret Lives of Glaciers delivers a critical message: understanding glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society worldwide experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earth's systems. Instead of creating another catalogue of all the ice the world is losing, The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores what we may yet find with glaciers: hope for humanity, and the possibility of saving this world's glaciers.

"What does it mean to regard a glacier as a neighbor to learn from and defend? A glacier as both a window and a mirror? This outrageous book, rich with revelation and stewardship, is, at its deepest level, an icy blue love story to make us reconsider what it means to be fully alive -- and open to wonder -- in our ever-changing worldBravo, M. Jackson." Kim Heacox , author of John Muir and the Ice that Started a Fire
"When it comes to glaciers, Dr. M Jackson is a linguistic sorcerer, making you fall in love by proxy with the geological memory-keepers. . . . Jackson's text moves with historical and scientific precision . . . Glaciers speak to our future just as much as we speak to theirs, and M Jackson's epic examination of their place in humanity's story is compelling." Excerpt from starred review from Foreword Reviews
"M Jackson brings a powerful combination of skills to bear in her ambitious task of complicating our understanding of the rapidly dwindling masses of ice with which we share this planet. Blending hands-on science, vivid descriptive writing, affecting personal anecdote, and insightful cultural observation, The Secret Lives of Glaciers is a hypnotic and inspiring bookessential reading for anyone who loves nature and is concerned about the human species' continued existence within it." Tim Weed , author, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
"M Jackson is a master storyteller, weaving evocative anecdotes and historical and scientific narratives into an intricate dance of the relationship between man and ice. Jackson writes eloquently, her stories of the real, concrete effects of climate change on the people of Iceland both informative and heart-wrenching." Dr. Michele Koppes , Glaciologist & Geographer
" The Secret Lives of Glaciers engulfs you from the very first page, and in that way does due justice to the colossal yet fragile icy protagonist it intends to uncover for its readers." - Asher Jay , Conservationist & National Geographic Explorer

M. Jackson is a ballet teacher, emerging artist, and indie author. She has had the joy of teaching children, adults, and those with special needs for many years. As as a mother, grandmother, and teacher she understands that reading to children from an early age nourishes creativity and imagination and increases vocabulary. Shas been a regular guest reader for pre and elementary schools and is a graduate of The University of Central Florida.

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ISBN 13	9780996267670
ISBN 10	0996267670
Title	The Secret Lives of Glaciers
Author	M Jackson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Green Writers Press
Year published	2019-01-15
Number of pages	292
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.