Gelo: Avventure nei luoghi più freddi del mondo
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788860406910 (8860406919)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: EDT
Pages no: 312
Edition language: Italian
Reads like an extended new yorker article (or maybe a notch less), marred by some slight repetition of fifth grade science. Streever is a clear sensory-oriented individual, characterizing cold well, but giving rise, as some reviewers have noted, as what may come off as "condescending" prose. ("I am ...
I had to put on my Snuggie while I read this book; we may have global warming, but the places Streever visits in this book are darn cold. This book is just the right mix of travel narrative and armchair philosopher.