The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Wheeler, Sara

 
9780374533090: The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle [Lingua Inglese]
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ISBN 10: 0374533091 ISBN 13: 9780374533090
Casa editrice: North Point Press, 2012

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A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title

More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming.

Inspired by the spiraling shape of a reindeer-horn bangle, she travels counterclockwise around the North Pole through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, marking the transformations of what once seemed an unchangeable landscape. As she witnesses the mounting pollution concentrated at the pole, Wheeler reckons with 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-Alaska Pipeline with a tough Idaho-born outdoorswoman, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting the haunting, deceptively peaceful lands of the Gulag, Wheeler brings the Arctic's many contradictions to life. The Magnetic North is an urgent, beautiful book, rich in dramatic description and vivid reporting. It is a singular, deeply personal portrait of a region growing daily in global importance.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sara Wheeler is the author of Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, and Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. She lives in London.

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Editore
North Point Press
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0374533091
ISBN 13 
9780374533090
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
336
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Hamburg
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Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780374200138: The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle [Lingua Inglese]

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0374200130 ISBN 13:  9780374200138
Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2011
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