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Muze Annotation: Greenland's 'poet laureate of the cold,' Gretel Ehrlich, presents an elegiac memoir of cold climates and the dwindling polar ice caps in this work of poetic travelogue nonfiction. Ehrlich captures the hearty resilience of the human soul in drastically cold climates--Wyoming, the Andes, and remote Northern areas of Russia--chronicling the landscape, its human and animal inhabitants (with a special attention to the birds), and the area's history. Her mission is to note the changes, if any, wrought on these areas by the greenhouse effect, the hole in the ozone layer, and the unchecked pollution of the industrial age, arousing empathy and outrage for the way greed is reducing the quality of the natural world. For Ehrlich, the human psyche is in harmony with the weather, and anyone who's seen moods rise and fall with the temperature might be inclined to agree. Now take that rising and falling to the extreme and accompany Ehrlich to the remote corners of the world, where rain is 'a form of sleep.' And lightning 'leaves scratch marks on brains.' As a powerful love letter to an environment that may be already irreversibly compromised, this is enlightened, sometimes heartrending reading