Change of State

When will you ever be truly cold again?

This week I’d like to share an essay that was first published a few months ago for a quarterly magazine called South Writ Large. Until one of its editors, the historian Amanda Bellows, asked me to write a piece for an issue themed around water¹, I did not know of the magazine.² But I was a fan of Amanda’s excellent book, The Explorers, a New History of th…