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The Farewell Glacier (Paperback)
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The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High
Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an
archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from
Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end
of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky
briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had
for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have explored
this far north. Sailing as close as possible to the vast glaciers
that dominate the islands, they saw polar bear prints on pieces of
pack ice the size of trucks. And they tried to understand the
effects of climate change on the ecosystem of this most crucial and
magnificent part of the world. Nick Drake's new collection gathers
together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers,
mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten -
as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of
the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape-shifters and the
powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year
2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever.
Many of the poems from The Farewell Glacier are included in
ground-breaking High Arctic exhibition, installed at the National
Maritime Museum in Greenwich from July 2011 to January 2012, which
received substantial national publicity, including a feature on BBC
Radio 4's Front Row and national press reviews.
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