Review of Principles of Glacier Mechanics

The first edition of Roger Hooke's book on glacier mechanics, published over 20 years ago, and resident in one of my offices, was a relatively slim volume. In this, its third edition, it has doubled in length and will sit comfortably on its shelf alongside the books by Cuffey and Paterson and by van der Veen. It provides a complete text on glacier mechanics for glaciological students. As Hooke notes in his various prefaces, the book is intended for practicing glaciologists and is aimed at a numerate but also practically minded audien