Thomas Wharton
Icefields
- ISBN 13:
- 9780671002206
- author:
- Thomas Wharton
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1996
- Pages:
- 288
- Genre:
- Books
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice and slid into a crevasse. Nearly sixty feet below the surface, he was wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm. The ice in front of him was lit with a pale blue-green radiance. There, embedded in the pure glacier, Byrne saw something that would link him to the vast bed of ice and its inhabitants. This moment marked the beginning of his quest to uncover the mystery of the icefield that almost became his tomb. Within this deceptively simple framework, Icefields takes a breathtaking look at the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths.