Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Gopnik, Adam

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; CBC Massey Lectures celebrates Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter - the season, the space, the cycle. 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 marks 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. 
Near Fine
Soft cover
House of Anansi Pr
2011
Toronto, ON