−50%The Glacier's Pace: The slowest thing on earth, admired slowly
Edwin Marsh · narrated by Rowan Whitmore
2026
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A glacier moves so slowly that a lifetime of watching barely counts as a glimpse, yet that patience is exactly the point. This is a quiet study of ice on its own terms: how a glacier carves a valley without hurry, what its blue depths and groaning cracks actually mean, and why slowness itself might be worth admiring rather than rushing past. Unhurried, plain-spoken, and content to let something vast take its time.
19 chapters
- 1What You Will Find Here2m
- 2How This Began5m
- 3Chapter 1: Coming Down to Its Speed13m
- 4Chapter 2: What the Ice Actually Is12m
- 5Chapter 3: How Something This Slow Still Moves13m
- 6Chapter 4: The Blue That Isn't Really Blue14m
- 7Chapter 5: The Sounds It Makes When It Thinks No One Is Listening12m
- 8Chapter 6: Following the Meltwater13m
- 9Chapter 7: The Stones It Carries and Leaves Behind13m
- 10Chapter 8: Weather at the Edge of the Ice14m
- 11Chapter 9: Old Snow, New Snow12m
- 12Chapter 10: Life That Clings to the Margins13m
- 13Chapter 11: The Ice by Morning, the Ice by Evening13m
- 14Chapter 12: Learning to Stand Still Here14m
- 15Chapter 13: A Simple Way of Coming Back12m
- 16Chapter 14: When the Ice Asks for Caution13m
- 17Coming to a Close4m
- 18About the Author2m
- 19What to Read Next1m
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