"Time and Water" Is Now Streaming!
The documentary based on Andri Snær Magnason's "On Time and Water" is now available on Disney+.
At long last, Sara Dosa’s film, Time and Water, a NatGeo documentary based on Andri Snær Magnason’s book, On Time and Water, is finally available to stream via Disney+/Hulu/HBO Max!
“A deeply spiritual film about science, land, family and ultimately love—all the things we risk to lose as our planet changes. But the film’s unique tone is unlike other climate documentaries. This beautiful elegy is one of the best movies of the year.”—Katie Walsh, Baltimore Sun
Additionally, the soundtrack by Dan Deacon (a personal favorite, whose music I’ve used on podcasts more times than I should publicly admit) also dropped today! You can find it on your streaming platform of choice, including SoundCloud.
To honor the streaming release of the film, On Time and Water is currently 40% off on our website through the end of August. Discount applied automatically at checkout!
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith
When all is said and done, this is one of the books that I’m most proud to have been a part of. It’s incredibly important, it’s brilliant and informative and heartbreaking and a little hopeful and one of the best “climate change” books of the past decade. Lytton’s translation is masterful, Andri’s spirit is palpable in the text—two of the reasons why this is one of our perennial best-selling books.
But what sticks with me, especially as a publisher, is how various presses from around the world (somewhere upwards of 40, including our good friends from Biblioasis in Canada) all came together to publish this book as close to simultaneously, everywhere, all at once, in as many languages as possible on April 22, 2020, in celebration of Earth Day.
And then, the pandemic.
The coordination fell apart as different presses reacted differently to local conditions, with, for instance, the UK version coming out before the North American one. We ended up delaying it to March 2021—but with good purpose! The impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns on the environment inspired Andri to add a new afterword reflecting on this and adding weight to his overall argument. So lemonade from lemons, I suppose.
This is a book that’s perfect for kids, teens, adults, skeptics, and eco-warriors. It’s a book backed by scientific data, but with a strong narrative line in which Andri talks about water, about family, about the span of time your one life can impact, about refocusing academia away from training workers to serve in the AI-apocalypse toward a focus on what truly matters—the health and survival of our planet. Andri is never pedantic, never beats you over the head with doomsaying, but instead presents the current situation with the sort of rational, logical approach that’s far more evident in Iceland and the rest of Europe than in today’s America. It’s not an explosive book, but one more like Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which presents, in plain, unadorned stories and language, the importance of fostering a reciprocal, positive relationship between human beings and the planet. (Seriously, if you’re a Braiding Sweetgrass fan, definitely check this out—you’re going to love it.)
Once again, On Time and Water is currently 40% off on our website through the end of August. This applies to both the paperback and the epub versions, and the discount will show up automatically.
Exciting!!