Do Glaciers Listen? Cruikshank Julie
Do Glaciers Listen? Cruikshank Julie The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains,Slow rolling on. By following such stories across three centuries, this book…
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Do Glaciers Listen? Cruikshank Julie
The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains,Slow rolling on. By following such stories across three centuries, this book explores local knowledge, colonial encounters, and environmental change.Do Glaciers Listen? - Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc," 1816Glaciers in America's far northwest figure prominently in indigenous oral traditions, early travelers' journals, and the work of geophysical scientists.
During late stages of the Little Ice Age, significant geophysical changes coincided with dramatic social upheaval in the Saint Elias Mountains. examines conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and social histories are entangled. European visitors brought conceptions of Nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress.
They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical