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The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle By Sara Wheeler
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- The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle
- ISBN
- 9780224082211
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Magnetic North
- Item Height
- 238mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
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- People
- Item Width
- 162mm
- Item Weight
- 642g
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Smashing 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 uncovers the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic. hen she puts up her tent on the top of the Greenland ice sheet, she experiences climate change at the sharp (and cold) end. The Magnetic North is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic in public and in private. The fragmented circumpolar lands were a repository of myth long before the scientists and oilmen showed up (not to mention desperado explorers who ate their own shoes), and the hinterland north of the tree line has fed literary imaginations from Dickens to Chekhov. The Magnetic North tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears. he unowned homogeneity of the Antarctic that enchanted the youthful author in the bestselling Terra Incognita finally finds a counterpart in the embattled polar lands at the other end of the earth. The complex and ambiguous Arctic, Wheeler writes, perfectly captures th
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The Magnetic North
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English
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Publication Year
2009
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368 Pages
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238mm
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Item Weight
642g
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