Do Glaciers Listen? - Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Cruikshank Julie)(Paperback)

The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on.- Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc," 1816Glaciers in America's far northwest figure prominently in indigenous oral traditions, early travelers' journals, and the work of geophysical scientists. By following such stories across three centuries, this book explores local knowledge, colonial encounters, and environmental change.Do Glaciers Listen? examines conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and social histories are entangled. During late stages of the Little Ice Age, significant geophysical changes coincided with dramatic social upheaval in the Saint Elias Mountains. European visitors brought conceptions of Nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical
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