Magnetic North Notes from the Arctic Circle

Name: Magnetic North Notes from the Arctic Circle
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ISBN: 9780374200138

ISBN-10: 0374200130

ISBN-13: 9780374200138

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sara Wheeler

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Ten years after her bestselling book on the Antarctic,Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to take the measure of what is at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming. Traveling counterclockwise through the territories belonging to Russia, Finland, Denmark, Canada, and America, she marks the changes in what once seemed an unchangeable landscape, as mounting pollution concentrated on the poles reveals the illness of the whole organism of the earth. Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, shadowing the endless trans-Alaskan pipeline with a band of rowdy truckers, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Tips About Icebergs



No Cows: The Arctic in Asian Russia



Five Hundred Alaskan Whores: The American Arctic



Rock Talk: The Canadian Arctic



Beautiful Routes to Knowledge: Greenland



Watchdogs and Whales: Svalbard



Four Legs Good: Lapland



Ship of Fools: The Arctic Ocean and its Passages



The Spirit Lives: The Arctic in European Russia


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index