The Dream Pool
2024
$65.00
First edition of The Dream Pool by Christine Rogers (2024)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
Signed by Christine Rogers to copyright page
About
In a poetic interpretation, Rogers explores dissolution. By combining the personal story of her family’s history (a sudden departure from their Swiss homeland and a more current loss of her relationship with her mother) with a larger historical thread, she searches for connections, correspondences and encounters across time and space, across nations, across families and strangers, across the warming sea.
Rogers began researching ice harvesting in 2014 after learning about the ice trade between New England and Calcutta in the 1830s. From 2005-2011 she lived in Boston and swam at Walden Pond every day in the summers. When she learned about the history where ice was harvested from Waldon Pond and shipped to Calcutta, she became excited to learn more. She traveled to India and spent time at the archives in the National Library of Calcutta to begin her research about the history of the ice trade.
