{"product_id":"the-last-winter-the-scientists-adventurers-journeymen-and-mavericks-trying-to-save-the-world-9780316460903","title":"The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne man's \"curiously thrilling joyride\" of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything--from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys--each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTimely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Winter\u003c\/i\u003e will showcase a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change--that may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePorter Fox\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York and raised on the coast of Maine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNorthland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow, \u003c\/i\u003e featured on the cover of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Sunday Review\u003c\/i\u003e and in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He lives, writes and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal \u003ci\u003eNowhere\u003c\/i\u003e in upstate New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e​His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePowder\u003c\/i\u003e, TheNewYorker.com, TheParisReview.com, Salon.com, \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a MacDowell Fellow. He won a Western Press Association award in 2014 for a two-part feature about climate change and a Lowell Thomas Award for an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eNorthland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725714952466,"sku":"9780316460903","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20540134-461d-47a2-acdd-9445e0a28313.jpg?v=1734840671","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-winter-the-scientists-adventurers-journeymen-and-mavericks-trying-to-save-the-world-9780316460903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}