The Secret Lives of Glaciers  explores just what happens when a community's glaciers slowly disappear. Meticulously detailed, each chapter unfolds complex stories of people and glaciers along the southeastern coast of Iceland, exploring the history of glacier science and the world's first glacier monitoring program, the power glaciers enact on local society, perceptions by some in the community that glaciers are alive, and the conflicting and intertwined consequences of rapid glacier change on the cultural fabric of the region. Powerfully written, The Secret Lives of Glaciers  reaches beyond Iceland and touches on changing glaciers worldwide, revealing oft-overlooked interactions between people and ice throughout human history.  The Secret Lives of Glaciers  delivers a critical message: understanding glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society worldwide experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and the anthropogenic transformation of all of Earth's systems. Instead of creating another catalog of the ice the world is losing,  The Secret Lives of Glaciers  explores what we may yet find with glaciers: the hopeful possibility of saving humanity's glaciers.  "This outrageous book, rich with revelation and stewardship, is, at its deepest level, an icy blue love story to make us reconsider what it means to be fully alive - and open to wonder - in our ever-changing world." Kim Heacox, Author, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire "M Jackson brings a powerful combination of skills to bear in her ambitious task of complicating our understanding of the rapidly dwindling masses of ice with which we share this planet. Blending hands-on science, vivid descriptive writing, affecting personal anecdote, and insightful cultural observation, The Secret Lives of Glaciers is a hypnotic and inspiring book--essential reading for anyone who loves nature and is concerned about the human species' continued existence within it." Tim Weed, Author, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing "M Jackson is a master storyteller, weaving evocative anecdotes and historical and scientific narratives into an intricate dance of the relationship between man and ice. Jackson writes eloquently, her stories of the real, concrete effects of climate change on the people of Iceland both informative and heart-wrenching. " Dr. Michele Koppes, Glaciologist & Geographer " The Secret Lives of Glaciers engulfs you from the very first page, and in that way does due justice to the colossal yet fragile icy protagonist it intends to uncover for its readers." Asher Jay, Conservationist & National Geographic Explorer The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores just what happens as Iceland's glaciers slowly disappear. Dr. M Jackson  is a geographer, glaciologist, TED Fellow, and an Emerging Explorer for the National Geographic Society. Jackson researches and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. Jackson earned a doctorate from the University of Oregon, is a veteran three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar, currently serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador and as an Arctic Expert for the National Geographic Society. Jackson's 2015 book,  While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change, explored the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a family and a planet change.