![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Traveling is no longer what it once was also because of restrictions this year. In climate crisis ice is melting into the sea and snow stops falling where it used to. Once an Arctic traveler, she has returned to journeys into the books. “For those concerned about their carbon footprint (not to mention having no money), flights of the imagination are better than fossil-fuelled tours,” Nancy reveals in our interview. Her books include The Library of Ice: Readings in a Cold Climate, Disko Bay and How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic. Nancy Campbell is an artist, poet and non-fiction writer. There’s a word for first snow in Korean, a word for sudden blizzard in spring in Latvian, and a word for thick snow on branches in Finnish. Author digs deep into the meaning of words for snow from all around the world – each of them offering a whole world of myth and story. Her new book Fifty Words for Snow is published this month. “My fascination with cold places began when I was Writer in Residence at the most northern museum in the world, on the northwest coast of Greenland, in the winter of 2010,” writes Nancy Campbell a decade later. ![]()
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