The magnetic north : notes from the Arctic circle / Sara Wheeler.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011. Edition: 1st American edDescription: xiii, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0374200130 (hbk.); 9780374200138 (hbk.); 9780374533090 (pbk.)Subject(s): Wheeler, Sara -- Travel -- Arctic regions | Arctic regions -- Description and travel | Arctic regions -- HistoryLOC classification: G635.W47 | A32 2011Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-302) and index.
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.
Ten years after her bestselling book on the Antarctic, "Terra Incognita," 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.
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