A fascinating book about the author’s love affair with ice and with the Greenland Ice Sheet in particular. Despite being written by arguably one of the world’s most knowledgeable experts, this beautiful book is easily accessible and not overly scientific. A quick read, inspiring one to want to visit Greenland, but clearly explaining, environmentally-wise, why we shouldn’t and a stark reminder of the real impacts of climate change.

Thank-you to the publisher and author for providing me an ARC copy of Ice by Marco Tedesco to review via Netgalley.

This book is brilliant. Marco Tedesco and Alberto Flores d'Arcais convey the fragility of the ice, as well as its sheer power. It's beautiful and terrifying.

Marco Tedesco doesn't just relay scientific facts. He approaches serious topics, including the suffering of Inuit people, with empathy. He tells us about their culture, religious practices and musical traditions.

I appreciated Marco's insights into life as a scientist on the ice. What it's like, what they eat, their daily routines, and what they wear. Apparently, cotton clothing is an absolute no. Once it gets wet, trapped air in the fabric fills up with water and won't protect you.

Ice also provides us with a dire warning. We must change. We must elect politicians who will commit to helping the planet recover.

I encourage everyone to read Ice: Tales From a Disappearing Continent. It's quite a short book, and the layman (i.e. people who aren't scientists or geographers) can understand it.

Full review and some facts I learned here: https://emilyunderworld.co.uk/ice-marco-tedesco/

This was a short but beautiful book - a collection of thoughts and observations on the ice sheet in Greenland and how its melting due to global warming affects our planet. The book was beautifully written and I liked that it mixes science, culture (quite a lot about the Inuit populations living in Greenland), history (who explored the South and North Poles) and the personal through Marco Tedesco's life - his leaving Southern Italy for the US, his mixed-heritage wife and their children and the world they will inherit. It was accessible but intelligent, and the writing was precise yet poetic and lyrical at times.