Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell

Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance

Mariana Gosnell

576 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative slow-paced
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More brittle than glass, at times stronger than steel, at other times flowing like molasses, ice covers 10 percent of the earth’s land and 7 percent of its oceans.Mariana Gosnell here explores the history and uses of ice in all its complexity, gra...

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