Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but this is the first to capture the whole story. Gabrielle made five trips to Antarctica between 1998 and 2008, and has used her experiences to produce a book unlike any that has been written about the continent. Antarctica weaves an intricate tapestry made up […]

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming

Global warming has progressed in the past few years from conjecture, to suspicion, to cold hard fact. We now know for sure that in every inhabited continent on Earth, year by year and decade by decade, the world’s temperature is rising. Should we care? After all, changes like this are nothing new to the ever-evolving […]

An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere

We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously into solid food; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. In this celebration of the Earth’s fragile atmosphere, Gabrielle peels back […]

Snowball Earth: The Story of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age that froze the entire planet? In “Snowball Earth”, Gabrielle Walker takes us on a natural history expedition in search of evidence for an audacious theory—that the Earth experienced a climatic cataclysm 600 million years ago that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator. […]