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On time and water / Andri Snær Magnason ; translated by Lytton Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andri Snær Magnason, 1973- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Um tímann og vatnið. English
- Language:
- English
- Icelandic
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Originally published in Icelandic.
- Summary:
- A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: May you live in interesting times
- A little treasure
- A future conversation
- A projection
- The all-encompassing silence of God's great expanse
- Writer's block
- Telling stories
- The words we do not understand
- Searching for the Holy Cow
- A visit from a holy man
- A revelation from the wrong god
- Back in time
- Crocodile dreams
- A mythology for the present
- N 64° 35.378', W 16° 44.691'
- The mother of the universe, white as rime
- Farewell to the white giants
- The god in the steam engine
- Just more words
- See the blue sea
- Maybe everything will be all right
- Interview with the Dalai Lama, in his guest room, Dharamsala
- In a mother's milk
- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
- 2050
- Apausalypse Now: Covid-19 postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 194883023X
- 9781948830232
- OCLC:
- 1136969127
- Publisher Number:
- 99987408180
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