Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian whose stories on science, technology, and nature have appeared in a host of national magazines. Since 2003 he has worked mainly as a feature writer for The New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was a New York Times bestseller. A frequent lecturer on technology and science history, Gertner lives with his family in New Jersey.
“Penetrating and engrossing . . . a captivating, essential book to
add to the necessarily burgeoning literature on global
warming.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Deeply engrossing and enlightening”—Booklist (starred review)
“The Ice at the End of the World is a masterpiece of
reportage and storytelling. What Gertner has found on Greenland’s
remote glaciers is a harrowing tale of extremity and survival,
as well as a harbinger of our own precarious future here on earth.
Equal parts science, adventure, and history, this important
book is a revelation, one that lingered for me long after turning
the last page.”—Michael Paterniti, author of The Telling
Room
“Jon Gertner guides us on a perilous and fascinating journey to the
remote island that lies at the epicenter of our understanding of
climate change. With compelling prose and lucid scientific
explanation, he tracks the explorers and scientists who, over two
centuries, have tried to fathom the immensity and mysteries of
Greenland’s inland ice. Both enlightening and disturbing, The Ice
at the End of the World takes us on a gripping adventure into the
thawing heart of global warming.”—Peter Stark, author of Astoria
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