#TodayILearned that the National Ice Core Lab in Denver stores ice from Greenland which scientists can petition to analyze. #NFN
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#TodayILearned that the National Ice Core Lab in Denver stores ice from Greenland which scientists can petition to analyze. #NFN
#TodayILearned that there are no male High Arctic black flies. The females have figured out how to reproduce without them. #NFN
Made a date with myself this morning to catch up on my bookclub book and eat pie.
pickIn 1910-12, the author Ejnar and a boat mechanic Iver sledge along the west coast of #Greenland looking for notes from previous Danes whose exploration ended in their 3 deaths. Ejnar and Iver brave the coast for well more than a year trying to get back to their ship. They are good partners for this task who have one spat in all this time, over an imaginary girl. It‘s a brutal survival story with an excellent epilogue about how the author ⬇️
pickThis was a beautiful stunning book. Its the story of how an Inupiaq family survived on a boat trip in the Arctic. It explained how the mom sewn all the warm clothes for the crew and what they ate to survive in a cold unwavering environment. Artwork is just wonderful as the story itself.
Imagine you‘re starving, and the only food you can anticipate is that stored by previous explorers in food caches. And then this…
#Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Since I‘m reading this book for #foodandlit I feel obligated to describe what these starving men had to do and eat as they trekked across part of #Greenland. I picked this one because I liked the analogy of the “snowball on the fires of hell.” @Catsandbooks
Oh no! So much for the gorgeous fireworks in the ice (see previous quote I posted)!
#Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
