08.07.03 - Greenland Impressions: Realities of Global Warming

Through the use of spectacular photography, the impressive coffee table book, Greenland Impressions, chronicles the 5-week journey from the largest village on the eastern sea coast to the highest peak in Greenland, before travelling onwards to the northernmost point of the Arctic in an effort to examine the conflicting changes which are occurring there.



Hardy's eyewitness account of the impact of global warming on Greenland, and its flora and fauna struggling to cope with such rapid change, is juxtaposed with the grandeur and beauty of the scenery. These are but a few of the impressions that describe Greenland, which represents one of the last frontiers - indeed, perhaps also the ultimate frontier.

- There are some really nice pictures in this book. They show there's still a severe poetry to Greenland's landscape - blue water, green grass, endless snow and ice. The Inuit use forty-nine words, a sort of rainbow vocabulary, to describe snow in its various states. It seems that the centuries of observation have taught them to see their native land in extraordinary depth and detail. Maybe it's time for the rest of us to take a close look, too - before those forty-nine words drop out of use, says Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson in the foreword.

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