Snö Geology This isn't your bog-standard history

This isn't your bog-standard history book

When Édouard has a stroke

It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that led her to discover the world of rare-breed sheep and their wool

this is the ideal companion with which to while away those lazy days between Christmas and New Year

broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes with illustrator Natalie Foss

Snö Geology This isn't your bog-standard historySnow. A single word, for an infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air. The study of snow is physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. It is hope annually renewed. And it is history, too. Earth saw its first snowfall 2. 4 billion years ago. The world's oldest skis, made by hand five thousand four hundred years old, pre date the pyramids of ancient Egypt. To humanity, snow has variously been an ally and an