Cold Latitudes / Rosemary McGuire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGuire, Rosemary Desideria, author.

Series:

Alaska literary series.

The Alaska Literary

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Polar regions.

Animals.

Climatic changes--Polar Regions.

Climatic changes.

Landscapes--Polar Regions.

Landscapes.

Polar regions--Environmental conditions.

Polar regions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Kongakut River, Easter Island

Rivers, Solitaire

Herring, Norton Sound

Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut

On the Tiglax

On the Pacific Ocean

Salvadors at Seal River

Summer of Light and Ice

Catching Krill at Midnight, Palmer Deep

Adélie/Gentoo

Leopard Seals

Wilhelmina Bay

Guillemot of Cooper Island

At the Eider Perch

Nanuq, Utqiaġvik

The People of the Whale

Spring Whaling

Dinosaurs and Wind on the Colville River.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602234383

1602234388

OCLC:

1200038457