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Travel writing, ecological reporting and history flow together in a portrait of one of nature’s most powerful features.
A New York Times Bestseller
A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller
Finalist for the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature
Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, Economist, Guardian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly • One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2025 • One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2025 •...
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