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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
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- Pubblicato
- 2011
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- Titolo
- The Magnetic North
- Sottotitolo
- Notes from the Arctic Circle
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Sara Wheeler
- Editore
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pubblicato
- 2011
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0374200130
- ISBN13
- 9780374200138
- Serie
- Descrizione
- 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.