Winter US Edition

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Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Watermark

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781770890459

<p>The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed <em>New Yorker</em> contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle.</p><p>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.</p><p> A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, <em>Winter</em> is at once an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. This deluxe 50th anniversary edition includes full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts.</p>