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Icefields

Thomas Wharton

1995206 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Washington Square Pr. · 274 pages · ENGISBN 9780671002206
  • 1995NeWest · 274 pages · ENGISBN 9780920897874
  • 1997Jonathan Cape · 206 pages · ENGISBN 9780224043663
  • 1997Vintage · 206 pages · ENGISBN 9780099766216

Leaving England for Canada in 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne has no idea that the glacier he has set out to study will come to absorb his every thought. When he arrives in Jasper, he finds himself attracted to then mysterious presence of the big white chunk. His religious appreciation of its movement keeps him in town much longer than anticipated, living out a symbiotic relationship with a block of ice.

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