Awards

• Short-listed for Foreword Reviews IndieFAB Book of the Year 2016 (United States)
• Winner of Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize for Sustainable Literature 2016 (United States)

Overview

While Glaciers SleptDr. Jackson guides us to solar, wind, and geothermal solutions, bringing us along on her expeditions to research climate change and to educate people about how to stop it. Scientists are continually looking for better ways to translate hard science into human language and that is precisely what this book does. Climate change, she convinces us, is not just about science-it is also about the audacity of human courage and imagination.

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As the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us '...walk like zombies through our burning dying world...' Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In While Glaciers Slept, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb. --Carlos Martinez, author of The Cold Music of the Ocean and The Raw Silk of the Dark The literary fabric of M Jackson's While Glaciers Slept comprises two strands intricately and intimately braided together. One is her engagement in a family journey through accident and disease that inflict pain and ultimately death on her parents. The second strand is also one of inflicted pain, but at a planetary scale--the degradation of Earth itself by its human inhabitants. M moves almost effortlessly from loss of limb to loss of ice, from prosthetics to a planetary parasol. The intertwining of the two strands creates a powerful narrative of humanity, singly and in the multitudes. --Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change If you've known hard grief and loss, you will understand this book. If you have hope or the wish for it, this book will shore you up. While Glaciers Slept tells a story of devotion and survival as it examines the ongoing global crisis of climate change. M Jackson is a naturalist, a teacher, and a daughter who mourns her mother's death as she discovers and explores the best choice, the only true choice ahead--a path of hope and action for ourselves and the living planet that birthed us all. --Phil Condon, author of Montana Surround, Clay Center, and Nine Ten Again Climate change is many things, including an upheaval--sudden and violent--in the life of our planet. As such, it unleashes feelings and forces like those in a family when someone dies. This is a profound way of thinking about where we are right now, and what we better do about it. --Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth and The End of Nature M Jackson does an intriguing job of weaving together observations about human health and frailty with global biospheric health and frailty. Her narrative brings climate change down from an abstract global scale to a very personal human scale. Particularly engaging for the non-scientist reader. --Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Prize winner and American's foremost expert on climate change -As the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us '...walk like zombies through our burning dying world...' Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In While Glaciers Slept, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb.- --Carlos Martinez, author of The Cold Music of the Ocean and The Raw Silk of the Dark -The literary fabric of M Jackson's While Glaciers Slept comprises two strands intricately and intimately braided together. One is her engagement in a family journey through accident and disease that inflict pain and ultimately death on her parents. The second strand is also one of inflicted pain, but at a planetary scale--the degradation of Earth itself by its human inhabitants. M moves almost effortlessly from loss of limb to loss of ice, from prosthetics to a planetary parasol. The intertwining of the two strands creates a powerful narrative of humanity, singly and in the multitudes.- --Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change -If you've known hard grief and loss, you will understand this book. If you have hope or the wish for it, this book will shore you up. While Glaciers Slept tells a story of devotion and survival as it examines the ongoing global crisis of climate change. M Jackson is a naturalist, a teacher, and a daughter who mourns her mother's death as she discovers and explores the best choice, the only true choice ahead--a path of hope and action for ourselves and the living planet that birthed us all.- --Phil Condon, author of Montana Surround, Clay Center, and Nine Ten Again -Climate change is many things, including an upheaval--sudden and violent--in the life of our planet. As such, it unleashes feelings and forces like those in a family when someone dies. This is a profound way of thinking about where we are right now, and what we better do about it.- --Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth and The End of Nature -M Jackson does an intriguing job of weaving together observations about human health and frailty with global biospheric health and frailty. Her narrative brings climate change down from an abstract global scale to a very personal human scale. Particularly engaging for the non-scientist reader.- --Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Prize winner and American's foremost expert on climate change As the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us walk like zombies through our burning dying world Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In While Glaciers Slept, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb. Carlos Martinez, author of The Cold Music of the Ocean and The Raw Silk of the Dark The literary fabric of M Jackson s While Glaciers Slept comprises two strands intricately and intimately braided together. One is her engagement in a family journey through accident and disease that inflict pain and ultimately death on her parents. The second strand is also one of inflicted pain, but at a planetary scale the degradation of Earth itself by its human inhabitants. M moves almost effortlessly from loss of limb to loss of ice, from prosthetics to a planetary parasol. The intertwining of the two strands creates a powerful narrative of humanity, singly and in the multitudes. Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice and a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change If you ve known hard grief and loss, you will understand this book. If you have hope or the wish for it, this book will shore you up. While Glaciers Slept tells a story of devotion and survival as it examines the ongoing global crisis of climate change. M Jackson is a naturalist, a teacher, and a daughter who mourns her mother s death as she discovers and explores the best choice, the only true choice ahead a path of hope and action for ourselves and the living planet that birthed us all. Phil Condon, author of Montana Surround, Clay Center, and Nine Ten Again Climate change is many things, including an upheaval--sudden and violent--in the life of our planet. As such, it unleashes feelings and forces like those in a family when someone dies. This is a profound way of thinking about where we are right now, and what we better do about it. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth and The End of Nature M Jackson does an intriguing job of weaving together observations about human health and frailty with global biospheric health and frailty. Her narrative brings climate change down from an abstract global scale to a very personal human scale. Particularly engaging for the non-scientist reader. Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Prize winner and American s foremost expert on climate change

-As the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us '...walk like zombies through our burning dying world...' Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In While Glaciers Slept, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb.- --Carlos Martinez, author of The Cold Music of the Ocean and The Raw Silk of the Dark

As the poet Tony Hoagland has pointed out, most of us walk like zombies through our burning dying world Not so M Jackson, who moves through the world very much aware of both the little and individually important things, such as family, while simultaneously perceiving and understanding the catastrophe that is happening all around us. In <i>While Glaciers Slept</i>, she links the one to the other in a flawless and brilliant way. This is superb. Carlos Martinez, author of <i>The Cold Music of the Ocean</i> and <i>The Raw Silk of the Dark</i></p>

Author Information

Dr. M Jacksonis a geographer, glaciologist, environmental educator, 2018 TED Global Fellow, and an Explorer for the National Geographic Society who researches and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. She's worked for over a decade in the Arctic chronicling climate change and communities, guiding backcountry trips and exploring glacial systems. She is the author of The Secret Lives of Glaciers. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, the author of The End of Nature, and the founder of 350.org. He also writes frequently for a wide variety of publications, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain.

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