Products DescriptionSmashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. The Magnetic North is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic: fragmented lands which fed imaginations long before the scientists and oilmen showed up (not to mention desperado explorers who ate their own shoes). The Magnetic North tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.
About the Author Sara Wheeler was brought up in Bristol. She read Classics and Modern Languages at Oxford University before embarking on polar explorations. A traveller, journalist and broadcaster, she lives in London with her partner and young son. She is the author of five previous books, including Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton. Table of Contents The Magnetic North is a wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and always engaging. Wheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places, has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden,A superb account of her circumpolar wanderings'' 'Wheeler is an excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth,Wheeler writes about travel so well because she delights in travelling. Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, joy and with hshine through even the saddest page of The Magnetic North' she has a rare and precious talent,A fusion of history and myth'elegant and intelligent,Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable,Wheeler's beautiful language and riveting narrative add up to a powerful account of what is at stake and what has already been lost,An ambitious, adventurous, well-researched, spirited account,[Wheeler brings] and open-eyed sense of salutary wisdom and timely protest to her view of the Arctic Ocean and its surrounds,Elegant prose ' a stylish and engaing account of some of the world's most mysterious, unknowable spots and, like the best travel writing, is infused with the writer's reflections on growing up, life and death,A funny, entertaining and humane piece of writing,Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth's frozen regions' The prose is startling and sharp-edged as the icy landscapes themselves,Beautiful and terrifying,Irresistibly attractive ' coddling hoosh of personal travelogue, historical anecdotage and speculative thinking,[Has] a meditative, often melancholy, quality that tells us a lot about what it's like to simply be in the Arctic'the author deftly weaves in some nicely crafted vignettes that illuminate various aspects of the Arctic experience,It is the warmth and the honesty of the portraits that is Wheeler's forte,Wheeler is excellent company for the journey, with her observations on the consequences of our actions always well balanced and open-minded.,Is an entertaining mix of popular science, history and reportage, wrapped up in some seriously fine writing.,Wonderful account of her journeys through the region. Specifications of Magnetic North, The
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