Bibliograph

Winter, five windows on the season, Adam Gopnik

Type

Label

Winter, five windows on the season, Adam Gopnik

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

platesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Winter

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Adam Gopnik

Series statement

CBC Massey lecture series

Sub title

five windows on the season

Summary

"A taste for winter, a love of winter--'a mind for winter'--is for many a part of the modern condition. International bestselling author 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 makes 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."--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Romantic winter -- Radical winter -- Recuperative winter -- Recreational winter -- Remembering winter

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