The Farewell Glacier

by Nick Drake

The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852249331
• ISBN13: 9781852249335
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"