Magnetic North : sea voyage to Svalbard / Jenna Butler.

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Butler, Jenna [author.]

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TextSeries: Wayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.)Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First electronic edition, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781772124217
1772124214
9781772124224
1772124222
9781772124231
1772124230

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Additional physical formats: Magnetic north.:; Print version:: Magnetic north.DDC classification:

811.6 23
C811/.6 23

LOC classification:

PR9199.4.B886

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cci1icc
coll13
af101fs

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Contents:

The journey -- Lines toward ice -- Pyramiden -- Ornithomancy -- Night -- Bone -- The men at the edge of the world -- She becomes the ocean -- Arctic by air -- Afloat -- Barentsburg -- Cusp -- Postcard from Svalbard -- At the face -- Threads -- Leaving days -- Song to the boreal.

Summary: A sea voyage connecting continents traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands.Summary: ""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 bornÈ. 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"-- Publisher's description. https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/919-9781772123821-magnetic-north

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A sea voyage connecting continents traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands.

""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 bornÈ. 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"-- Publisher's description.

https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/919-9781772123821-magnetic-north

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