Adam Gopnik

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Bibliography, Permissions, and Visuals From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	This "chapter" includes a bibliography, permissions, and visual credits.	Adam Gopnik	56	2011	$5.60 Add
From Radical Winter: The Season in Space From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Gopnik examines literary presentations of the extreme environments of the Far North and Far South, tracing polar exploration from Franklin’s lost 1845 expedition to the …	Adam Gopnik	41	2011	$4.10 Add
From Recreational Winter: The Season at Speed From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Gopnik traces the cultural history of ice skating and ice hockey as expressions of identity in cold climates.	Adam Gopnik	44	2011	$4.40 Add
From Recreational Winter: The Season in Silence From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Gopnik explores how winter shapes culture, memory, and urban life, and the impact of climate change on this culture.	Adam Gopnik	41	2011	$4.10 Add
From Recuperative Winter: The Season in Spirit From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Gopnik traces the invention of Christmas as a composite winter holiday, blending Roman solstice festivals like Saturnalia with Christian rituala from the fourth century. He …	Adam Gopnik	42	2011	$4.20 Add
From Romantic Winter: The Season Sight From: Winter View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Gopnik traces how humanity’s relationship with winter evolved from classical mythology through to the modern era, highlighting figures like William Cowper, Caspar David …	Adam Gopnik	50	2011	$5.00 Add
Winter Five Windows on the Season House of Anansi Press	The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter — the season, …	Adam Gopnik	290	2011	View