Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination.(Book review)

CRUIKSHANK, JULIE. Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination. xii, 312 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogr. Toronto: Univ. British Columbia Press, 2005. $85.00 (cloth)

For Cruikshank, the notion that glaciers, like rocks, have the capacity to listen and are 'characterized by sentience' (p. 25) captures one of the central tenets of her book--that the history of human encounters located in the glaciers of the Saint Elias Mountains of the Northwest Coast of North America provides an excellent backdrop for understanding fundamental differences in ...