📚 Glaciers

Rivers of ice: movement, the erosion they carve, the retreat that measures the climate, and the records kept in them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject glaciers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Deucalion and other studies in rocks and stones	John Ruskin	1875	20
	Geological sketches	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz	1866	15
	Hours of exercise in the Alps	John Tyndall	1871	15
	Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge	Hermann von Helmholtz	1865	14
	Sabertooths and the Ice Age	Mary Pope Osborne	2005	13
	Frost and fire	John Francis Campbell	1863	12
	The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers	John Tyndall	1872	12
	The Blue Bear	Lynn Schooler	2002	12
	Matériaux pour l'étude des glaciers	Daniel Dollfus-Ausset	1863	10
	The physics of glaciers	W. S. B. Paterson	1969	10
	Glacial Geology	Matthew M. Bennett	2009	10
	Principles of Glacier Mechanics	Roger LeB Hooke	1998	9
	Glaciers of North America	Israel C. Russell	1897	8
	Little Ice Age	Jean M. Grove	1988	8
	Glaciers	Wendell V. Tangborn	1965	7
	Glaciers and landscape	David E. Sugden	1976	6
	Look at Glaciers	Patrick Allen	2008	6
	Colour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena	Michael J. Hambrey	2016	6
	Études sur les glaciers	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz	1840	5
	Climatic accidents in landscape-making	Cotton, C. A.	1942	5
	Glacier ice	Austin Post	1971	5
	Living ice	Robert P. Sharp	1988	5
	Modern Glacial Environments	John Menzies	1994	5
	Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd Edition	Douglas Benn	2014	5
	The ice age in North America, and its bearings upon the antiquity of man	G. Frederick Wright	1889	4
	Mountain glaciers of the Northern Hemisphere	William O. Field	1975	4
	Rockglaciers	Dietrich Barsch	1996	4
	Glaciers (Early Bird Earth Science)	Sally M. Walker	2007	4
	Glaciers	Mari C. Schuh	2010	4
	Glaciers	Christine Webster	2011	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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