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Author Butler, Jenna, author.

Title Magnetic North : sea voyage to Svalbard / Jenna Butler
Edition First electronic edition, 2018
Published Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series [Wayfarer]
Wayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.)
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
""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
Analysis Arctic regions
Subject Butler, Jenna -- Travel -- Norway -- Svalbard
Ocean travel.
Climatic changes -- Arctic regions
Feminism.
Ocean travel -- Poetry
Canadian poetry.
Feminism
feminism.
FICTION -- General.
Travel
Feminism
Climatic changes
Canadian poetry
Ocean travel
SUBJECT Svalbard (Norway) -- Description and travel
Svalbard (Norway) -- Poetry
Subject Arctic Regions
Svalbard
Genre/Form Electronic books
Poetry
Form Electronic book
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