Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]

Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]

And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers.

I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.