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  The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic (Paperback) By (author) Sara Wheeler

  

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  Short Description for The Magnetic NorthSmashing 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 controversy.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 06 May 2010
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing | Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780099516880 ISBN 10: 0099516888
  • Sales rank: 122,595

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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 complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controversy. "The Magnetic North" 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). "The Magnetic North" tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.