The Farewell Glacier Author:Nick Drake The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. Nick Drake's new collection gathers together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous, and the forgotten - as well as giving voice to the confounding mysteries of the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape... more »-shifters, and the powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year 2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever.« less