Nancy Campbell received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award
in 2020 for a decade-long creative response to the polar
environment, which began during a winter as Artist in Residence at
the most northern museum in the world on
Upernavik in Greenland. Her books include Fifty Words for Snow, a
Waterstones Book of the Month, The Library of Ice: Readings in a
Cold Climate, and the poetry collection Disko Bay. She was
appointed Canal Laureate in 2018, writing poems for installation
across the UK waterways from London Docklands to the River Severn.
Her memoir Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm describes
making a home in an old Buccaneer caravan between the River Thames
and the Oxford Canal, where she still lives.
'A sparkling prism to reveal what snow means to different
cultures... [an] exploration of the language that describes myriad
snowscapes, from mountain peaks and ancient glaciers to boreal
cities and Baltic landscapes.' National Geographic
'A miraculous snow bank of niveous names and knowledge as
delicate and multifaceted as the flakes it celebrates. A glittering
cloud of Inupiaq, Icelandic, compound Maori, Finnish, Scots, Thai,
Hebrew, American Sign Language.' Dan Richards, author
of Outpost: A Wild Journey to the Ends of the Earth
'This is a book of now... It shows us how we are connected and
united across languages and across borders, through our
environment, climate, stories and Nature. Fifty Words for Snow
is both gorgeous and important to hunker down with, whatever the
weather outside.' Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine 'A
delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and
adventure through frozen landscapes as it shares the meanings
behind 50 words for snow, gathered from around the globe.' The
Herald, Christmas Books 2020
‘Absolutely exquisite. This little book is a work of art. It is
impossible to imagine the reader who will not love
it.’ Horatio Clare, author of The Light in the Dark
‘This stunning book made me want to pack all my woolies, candles,
ample firewood and enough books for a year – and head to as
northerly a location as I could find.’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh,
Caught By the River
‘Sparkles and dazzles with new meanings and old magic. You’ll never
see snow in the same way again.’ Matt Gaw, author
of Under the Stars
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