- 312 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Two by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended off grizzlies and polar bears, been serenaded by humpback whales and scrutinized by puffins, and reveled in moments of calm.
As Fredston writes, these trips are "neither a vacation nor an escape, they are a way of life." Rowing to Latitude is a lyrical, vivid celebration of these northern journeys and the insights they inspired. It is a passionate testimonial to the extraordinary grace and fragility of wild places, the power of companionship, the harsh but liberating reality of risk, the lure of discovery, and the challenges and joys of living an unconventional life.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 - The Pull of Rowing
- 2 - Tufluk Kabloona
- 3 - Rites of Passage: Seattle to Skagway
- 4 - Stream of Consciousness: The Yukon River
- 5 - Big Surf and Bad Bears: The Chukchi Sea
- 6 - At the Dark Time, Pull the Cord: The Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean
- 7 - If I Were a Place: The Coast of Labrador
- 8 - The Devil in the Violin: Alaskans in Norway
- 9 - A Whale of a Day in Svalbard
- 10 - Reflections from a Hard Seat
- 11 - Searching for Open Water: Greenland
- Photographs
- Additional praise for Jill Fredston’s Rowing to Latitude
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page