Book of cold, ice and snow. Stepanenko E.

What is winter? These are snowflakes, frosty patterns on the window, New Year holidays, sledges, skates, skis. And winter is a whole mainland, these are Arctic expeditions, dog sledges, polar night and several ice age. This book is a large dictionary of winter and the entire winter. Here, in alphabetical order, facts, stories, myths and legends about ice, cold and snow are collected. Winter in this book is shown through the prism of different sciences: from astronomy to philosophy and from biology to history. Everything that we love in winter, and everything that is striking in our imagination, the secrets of nature and dangerous adventures of the past, the laws of physics and fantastic fairy tales - all this is collected here, under one cover.