Heart of Ice
A Journey Into Antarctica's Frozen Realm
Published on 1. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-74223-780-0 (ISBN)
Description
Moisture, temperature, gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth's continents.
Heart of Ice takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica's ice. Joy McCann - author of the internationally acclaimed Wild Sea - eloquently draws on a vast body of scientific and historical research to explore how Antarctica's ice sheets, its glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice, have been imagined, inhabited and invested with meaning over time. She invites readers to see this vast icy realm in a different way - as a vibrant, storied, multispecies environment and a powerful agent that has shaped - and continues to shape - our history and our planet.
Heart of Ice takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica's ice. Joy McCann - author of the internationally acclaimed Wild Sea - eloquently draws on a vast body of scientific and historical research to explore how Antarctica's ice sheets, its glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice, have been imagined, inhabited and invested with meaning over time. She invites readers to see this vast icy realm in a different way - as a vibrant, storied, multispecies environment and a powerful agent that has shaped - and continues to shape - our history and our planet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney, NSW
Australia
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74223-780-0 (9781742237800)
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Person
Joy McCann is an Australian environmental and public historian who explores the interwoven histories of people, places, ideas and the nonhuman world. Recipient of a 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowship, Joy is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Tasmania and the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean and Ice Bound: The Australian Story of Antarctica.