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Winter: Five Windows on the Season
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Author
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Adam Gopnik.
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Anansi
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paperback
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9780887849756
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256/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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19342
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A taste for winter, a love of winter—"a mind for winter," as New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik identifies it—is for many a part of the modern condition. In these essays, based on his series of Massey Lectures for 2011, Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for the City of Light in Paris to the Moon, giving us a portrait of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter, Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and Remembering Winter. He touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from the German romantic landscape and the politics of polar exploration to the science of ice. Through intricate narrative detail, buoyed by his gentle wit, Gopnik draws us into another magical world and looks at it anew. Appropriately, this edition was published with five different covers (although, we're sorry to say, we cannot guarantee which will be available when you order).
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