The Magnetic North
by Sara Wheeler
The whole Arctic, right now. Everyone wants what the melting ice reveals.
For you if
you want to understand why the Arctic is the most important place on earth right now and what its melting means beyond the polar bears
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Wheeler travels the entire circumpolar Arctic — Norway, Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, the Pole itself — to understand what the region is becoming as the ice retreats. She interviews scientists, indigenous communities, oil company executives, military strategists, hunters. The Arctic is no longer remote — it is the most contested real estate on earth, its melting ice opening shipping lanes and revealing mineral deposits that every major power wants. The most comprehensive contemporary Arctic dispatch and the one that understands the region as a political as well as a geographical place.
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- Voice
- Outside perspective
- Themes
- climate change
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
