Review of "Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
An anecdotal narrative of an Alaska resident's winter (starting in July, ending in June). Along the way, history and science are briefly explored; the list of references is several pages long. The book hasn't enough of either to be lumped into those categories - it is more travelogue than anything else.
Started this thinking non-fiction cold might get me reading fictional cold (Dan Simmons The Terror) again. Didn't work. Will also delay reading Streever's Heat - suspect it will be more of the same.
An anecdotal narrative of an Alaska resident's winter (starting in July, ending in June). Along the way, history and science are briefly explored; the list of references is several pages long. The book hasn't enough of either to be lumped into those categories - it is more travelogue than anything else.
Started this thinking non-fiction cold might get me reading fictional cold (Dan Simmons The Terror) again. Didn't work. Will also delay reading Streever's Heat - suspect it will be more of the same.