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Fifty Words for Snow

Nancy Campbell
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  • ISBN 9781783964987
  • Dimensions: 140 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Nov 2020
  • Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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'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

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Snow. Every language has its own words for the feather-like flakes that come from the sky. In Japanese we find Yuki-onna - a 'snow woman' who drifts through the frosted land. In Icelandic falls Hundslappadrifa - 'big as a dog's paw'. And in Maori we meet Huka-rere - 'one of the children of rain and wind'.

From mountain tops and frozen seas to city parks and desert hills, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow. Under her gaze, each of these linguistic snow crystals offers a whole world of myth and story.
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About Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell is an award-winning writer and artist. Her travels in the Arctic between 2010 and 2017 have resulted in several projects responding to the environment, most recently The Library of Ice: Readings in a Cold Climate (S&S), which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019. Her previous book on the polar environment, Disko Bay, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2016. An illustrated alphabet book, How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic, received the Birgit Skiöld award in 2013. She has been a Marie Claire ‘Wonder Woman’, a Hawthornden Fellow and Artist in Residence at Oxford University. She is currently a Literature Fellow at Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany.

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