The Magnetic North

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<p>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 complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.</p><p><i>The Magnetic North</i>is an adroit combination 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.</p><p>Chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson, Robert Carver and others.</p>

Autorenportrait

Sara Wheelers books include the international bestseller<i>Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica</i>, of which the<i>Telegraph</i>reviewer wrote, I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.<i>The Magnetic North</i>:<i>Notes from the Arctic Circle</i>, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers:<i>Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard</i>, and<i>Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton</i>, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in<i>O My America!</i>. She lives in London.

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