The Arctic: An Anthology

Description

The Arctic features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works on cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole. Contributors include British, American, Scandinavian and Russian explorers such as John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Salomon August Andree, Knud Rasmussen and Robert Peary; novelists such as Jules Verne, Jack London and Barry Lopez; and environmental explorers such as Gretel Ehrlich. Published alongside the companion volume, The Antarctic: An Anthology.

Elizabeth Kolbert was a political reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1999. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man appeared in the magazine in spring 2005; it won a National Magazine Award, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine-writing award, and the National Academies' communication award. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change published by Bloomsbury. She lives in Massachusetts.

"* 'The terrible beauty of the polar regions has posed a challenge to those who have seen it, causing them to strive grimly to find new ways to describe it... there is some superb nature writing in these collections... [they] display the beauty and vulnerability of these regions, and in doing so explain just what we stand to lose, and how close we are to losing it' Guardian * 'Some real talent - writers who not only know their subject, but who can also discuss it with colour and elegance' Good Book Guide"