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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 discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. <i>The Magnetic North</i> 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). <i>The Magnetic North</i> tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.
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The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2011
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- Titel
- The Magnetic North
- Ondertitel
- Notes from the Arctic Circle
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Sara Wheeler
- Uitgever
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2011
- Formaat
- Hardcover
- Aantal pagina's
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0374200130
- ISBN13
- 9780374200138
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Natuur, Avontuur, Wetenschap, Ecologie, Reizen
- Aantekening
- 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 discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. <i>The Magnetic North</i> 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). <i>The Magnetic North</i> tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.