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A scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earth’s wildest and most endangered places
“While conveying the geological hypotheses, techniques of data collection, and adventures of his expeditions to Greenland with his two Danish colleagues, Glassley also brings startling sensory precision to his descriptions. The velvety feeling of moss, the taste of reindeer lichen, the alternating rhythms of terror and fluidity in schools of fish through which a predatory sculpin cruises—such experiences bring what might have seemed a stark world of rock and ice alive. This delicacy of perception is the vehicle through which not only the scientific quest but also the profound mystery of our living Earth saturates this memorable book.” —John Elder, coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing and author of Picking Up the Flute “Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Oil and Honey
William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He is the author of over seventy research articles, a textbook on geothermal energy, and A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“While conveying the geological hypotheses, techniques of data collection, and adventures of his expeditions to Greenland with his two Danish colleagues, Glassley also brings startling sensory precision to his descriptions. The velvety feeling of moss, the taste of reindeer lichen, the alternating rhythms of terror and fluidity in schools of fish through which a predatory sculpin cruises—such experiences bring what might have seemed a stark world of rock and ice alive. This delicacy of perception is the vehicle through which not only the scientific quest but also the profound mystery of our living Earth saturates this memorable book.” —John Elder, coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing and author of Picking Up the Flute “Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Oil and Honey
William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He is the author of over seventy research articles, a textbook on geothermal energy, and A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.