When the Last Glacier Melts. On Time, Water, and the Beauty of the World We Are Destroying...

The documentary and popular science work of the renowned Icelandic writer Andri Magnusson is unlike any existing books about the planet and climate. This global and deeply personal narrative combines conversations with leading geographical scientists and interviews with the Dalai Lama, family chronicles with historical and mythological plots. The changes that people face on the planet are more complex and greater than all previous human experience, more than the languages and many ideologies we use to try to understand and explain reality. That is why everything we do is very important. After all, we create the future every day. Magnusson captivates with his narrative about time – through memory, ancestral stories, and the mythology of the Celts, in which water, once a glacier, ceased to be one...