{"product_id":"sno-a-history","title":"Sno: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful and profound natural history of snow from the bestselling, award-winning Swedish environmentalist Sverker S rlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic and existential significance of what is, due to climate-change, fast-becoming a vanishing fact of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected as one of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBest Books on the Environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Amazing anecdotes ... thrilling and moving.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis full of character, as condensed with detail as firn (compacted, heavy, old snow) and as beautifully constructed as a snowflake.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSnow. A single word, for an infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air. The study of snow is physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. It is hope - annually renewed. And it is history, too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarth saw its first snowfall 2.4 billion years ago. The world's oldest skis, made by hand five thousand four hundred years old, pre-date the pyramids of ancient Egypt. To humanity, snow has variously been an ally and an adversary; an inspiration to countless artists and a place of breathtaking tragedy and survival. But it's always been there. And now it is melting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1927, the snow was already more than nine metres deep on Japan's Mount Ibuki when a remarkable 230cm fell in 24 hours, bringing about the greatest depth of snow - 11.82m - ever recorded. Yet it is a fact today that, ironically not only has this mountain's resort been forced to close due to lack of snow, most people in the world have never been near snow: never felt the soft crunch of snow underfoot, never held snow to see it melt in their hands, let alone stood on a pair of skis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the seasons lose their rhythm, and whole landscapes risk vanishing, shrinking too our planet's ability to reflect sunlight, Swedish environmentalist Sverker S rlin urges that we take the time to look - really \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e - at what it is we're losing, in all its multifaceted wonder. And to question, what comes next?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Part a love letter to snow, part a goodbye,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis extraordinary.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally Coulthard - Author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret World of Twilight: A Natural History of Dusk \u0026amp; Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Arresting facts and extraordinary insights. Sverker S rlin is a scholar and writer at the height of his creative powers.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKlaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doubleday UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097916989729,"sku":"9781529947878","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/Screenshot2026-07-30at2.27.09pm.png?v=1785385657","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/sno-a-history","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}