Heart of Ice: A journey into Antarctica's frozen realm

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Moisture, temperature, gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth's continents.

Heart of Ice takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica's ice. Joy McCann author of the internationally acclaimed Wild Sea eloquently draws on a vast body of scientific and historical research to explore how Antarctica's ice sheets, its glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice, have been imagined, inhabited and invested with meaning over time. She invites readers to see this vast icy realm in a different way as a vibrant, storied, multispecies environment and a powerful agent that has shaped and continues to shape our history and our planet.

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Joy McCann is an environmental and public historian whose writing explores the more-than-human histories of oceans and ice. She is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, and the author of several books including Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean (co-published by NewSouth and the University of Chicago Press), Ice Bound: The Australian Story of Antarctica, and (with Erika Techera) The Unruly Ocean: Law and Justice in the World's Oceans, Seas and Shorelines.