The Future of Ice

  Copyright © 2004 by Gretel Ehrlich

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  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Copper Canyon Press for permission to reprint

  an excerpt from “At Whole-World-In-View Hut,” by Muso Soseki, translated by

  W. S. Merwin from East Window: The Asian Translations. Copyright © 1998 by

  W. S. Merwin.

  The future of ice: a journey into cold / Gretel Ehrlich.

  p. cm.

  1. Ehrlich, Gretel—Travel—Cold regions. 2. Cold regions—Description and travel.

  3. Cold—Psychological aspects. 4. Weather—Psychological aspects. I. Title.

  G465.E46 2004 818′.5403—dc22 2004044666

  eISBN: 978-0-307-48531-1

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