Magnetic North - Sea Voyage to Svalbard (Paperback)

"Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is born." From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands. With a conservationist, female gaze, she questions explorer narratives and the mythic draw of the polar North. As a woman who cannot have children, she writes out the internal friction of travelling in Svalbard during the fertile height of the Arctic summer. Blending travelogue and poetic meditation on place, Jenna Butler draws readers to the beauty and power of threatened landscapes, asking why some stories in recorded history are privileged while others speak only from beneath the surface.

General

Imprint:	University of Alberta Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Wayfarer
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Jenna Butler
Dimensions:	229 x 133 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-1-77212-382-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	1-77212-382-X
Barcode:	9781772123821

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