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Boundless - Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

English · Hardback

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In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage - connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans - alongside marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along this arctic passage, Winter witnesses the new mathematics of the melting North - where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking their part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. Throughout the journey she also learns much from her fellow travellers - about the original expeditions, how to survive in a wasteland, Inuit society, the real perils of climate change - and guides us through her own personal odyssey, emigrating from England to Canada as a child and discovering both what was lost and what was gained as a result of that journey. In breathtaking prose charged with vivid descriptions of the land and its people, Kathleen Winter''s Boundless is a haunting and powerful story: a homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.

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Authors Kathleen Winter
Publisher JONATHAN CAPE
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.02.2015
 
EAN 9780224098366
ISBN 978-0-224-09836-6
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 143 mm x 222 mm x 27 mm
Subject Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic

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