The Ice at the End of the World

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner. This very interesting book is both a history of the exploration of Greenland and an assessment of the global climate change crisis. The author describes the social history of Greenland and its exploration, and also the stories of the intrepid early explorers who added so much to the knowledge of large ice caps. Its striking how 'no 2 glaciers are alike' according to this author. His writing is clear and descriptive, and the build up from exploration to scientific research of the large ice fields of the world is an exciting, and at the same time disturbing narrative. From the Inuit and the early Norse settlers, to the use of satellite technology to analyze the ice melt, the story plunges us into the remote areas that will change all of our worlds.