The Magnetic North: Notes from the Artic Circle (Signed First Edition)

Sara Wheeler

ISBN 10: 0374200130 / ISBN 13: 9780374200138

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011

About this Item

New York: FSG (2011). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NEW/NEW. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free shop. 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 04-2011-218

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Magnetic North: Notes from the Artic Circle (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374200130
• ISBN 13: 9780374200138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arctic Exploration

About this title

Synopsis

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title

More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica’s extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming.

Inspired by the spiraling shape of a reindeer-horn bangle, she travels counterclockwise around the North Pole through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, marking the transformations of what once seemed an unchangeable landscape. As she witnesses the mounting pollution concentrated at the pole, Wheeler reckons with the illness of the whole organism of the earth.

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, shadowing the endless Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a tough Idaho-born outdoorswoman, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting the haunting, deceptively peaceful lands of the Gulag, Wheeler brings the Arctic’s many contradictions to life. The Magnetic North is an urgent, beautiful book, rich in dramatic description and vivid reporting. It is a singular, deeply personal portrait of a region growing daily in global importance.

About the Author

Sara Wheeler is the author of two biographies—Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton and Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard—and three books of travel writing: Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, and the bestselling Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. She lives in London.