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Author’s Note

IN THIS BOOK, both imperial and metric units are used, which means that temperatures are given in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. These measurements have a story of their own, one that contains a certain irony, because Daniel Fahrenheit, a German by birth who worked in Amsterdam in the early seventeenth century, developed a system that is used in few countries today outside of the United States. A few decades later, the Swede Anders Celsius created the temperature scale that carries his name; it is still used in his homeland and in most other countries around the world.

Ski slopes beckon in this Canadian travel poster, ca. 1940.