PositiveOxford Writers HouseIce...speaks with multiple voices in this book, and it is a pleasure to listen to them. Who knew, for example, that water mixed with the sediment formed by glaciers shoving their way over bedrock is called glacier milk, or that hailstorms, unlike snow or rainfall, are always short? A greater enigma, however, is the voice of the book itself. At times, I felt that its understated tone ran the risk of slumping into flatness...However, all in all, I think this subdued, level-headed tone is actually quite radical. I think it may be the kind of voice we need when we’re talking about ice in a world which seems, as Campbell writes with characteristic understatement, ‘pretty close to ruin.’
