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Cold Latitudes

Cold Latitudes

McGuire, Rosemary

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Series: Alaska Literary

Letters & EssaysTravel GeneralFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 160223437X
ISBN13: 9781602234376
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From solo voyages down the Yukon and part of the Northwest Passage, to working with humpback whales in the Southern Ocean, to chilling encounters with polar bears, Rosemary McGuire's stories are told in spare, graceful prose. It is her friendships with local people, and with scientific researchers, that form the core of her experiences. Through these local contacts and traditional knowledge, she learns humility and a sense of wonder at the natural world, while at the same time coming to appreciate the gritty determination of the field researchers whose work she shares. Throughout, she examines human relationships with wilderness, and our growing effects on a fragile planet. And so, as she writes, In the end, this is a love story for a threatened place.

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