The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler
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, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.
A wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and always engagingWheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places, has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden -- Rory MacLean * Sunday Times *
An excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth -- Fergus Fleming * Literary Review *
Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, and joy shine through...a rare and precious talent -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *
Beautiful and terrifying * The Times *
Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable -- Kathleen James * Guardian *
An excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth -- Fergus Fleming * Literary Review *
Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, and joy shine through...a rare and precious talent -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *
Beautiful and terrifying * The Times *
Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable -- Kathleen James * Guardian *
Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.’ The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099516880 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099516888 |
| Title | The Magnetic North |
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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