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Thinking Like an Iceberg
Olivier Remaud
Translated by Stephen Muecke
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Originally published in French as Penser comme un iceberg © Actes Sud, 2020
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
Excerpt from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez reprinted by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright 1986 by Barry Lopez.
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The frozen ocean itself still turns in its winter sleep like a dragon.
— Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Acknowledgements
I would first like to thank Stéphane Durand at my French publisher, Actes Sud, for welcoming this book into his ‘Mondes sauvages’ series and for following every step of the process with attention and friendship.