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New on my reading pile is this book, from M Jackson.
This TED Fellows piece, from which the wonderful image at the top was taken, provides more details on the book and the author.
An interesting quote from the piece:
Some people are worried about losing their identity as the ice disappears. Young people, especially, would ask me, “Can we still be Icelandic in Iceland without ice?” I also had some, particularly older, people say that it was the very best thing in the world that this ice was melting, because it would no longer flood and destroy their families, farms and futures as it had for the last hundred years.
The author secures a research grant to live in Hofn on the SE coast of Iceland and explore the connection between people living locally and the ice that they can see descending in five separate ice streams from the interior.
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