"How can an iceberg be alive? By being perceived as an active partner by other living beings, be they autochthonous peoples from the Far North or scientists, explorers, writers, painters. Leafing through a variety of sensible experiences of these floating mountains, and reflecting poetically on their philosophical implications, Remaud draws a lesson: indifference to the death of glaciers reflects the incapacity of most Modern humans to think themselves as mere parts of a greater whole." Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture
"Invites you to look at the link between humans and nature in a completely new way." Sally Hayden, The Irish Times
"Thinking Like an Iceberg tells a detailed and imaginative story of ice that sees ice as aware of its own existence and fate and its role within human society and history.... As glaciers continue to melt at alarming rates and ever-larger icebergs calve into the ocean, Remaud has created a book that prompts us to contemplate in a new way what it means to lose this shifting, cracking, bubbling and increasingly temporary structure and surface." Polar Research
To think like an iceberg is on one level to dispel the myth of Arctic solitude. It is a myth to which western travellers, steeped in images of the sublime, are especially prone. Adrift on an ocean of icebergs, as if in a hall of mirrors, they are inclined to see in their pristine surfaces only endless reflections of themselves. Yet in truth, as Remaud shows, there are no mirrors, nor does nature lie concealed on the other side. It is rather all around us, and we are suspended in its web. Tim Ingold, Artic
