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Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
32.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Snow. In Japan it is Yuki-onna - 'a goddess'. In Icelandic, Hundslappadrífa - 'flakes as big as a dog's paw'. In Hawai'ian, snow is hau - 'mother of pearl', but also 'love'. Every language and culture has its own words for the feathery, jewel-like flakes that fall from the sky. From Iceland to Greenlan ...Show more
The Library of Ice : Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing. Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, accl ...Show more
The Library of Ice - Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
22.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow -- I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy e ...Show more
Thunderstone: A Summer in a Caravan in the Woods by Nancy Campbell
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors… But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.’ In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan an ...Show more
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