The Big Thaw
eBook - ePub

The Big Thaw

Travels in the Melting North

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Big Thaw

Travels in the Melting North

About this book

The effects of climate change are reshaping the Arctic profoundly. Landscapes are being radically transformed, animal habitats are disappearing, and natural resources are being revealed to an energy-starved world. Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik took eleven trips throughout the north to document this rapidly changing land, gaining unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts. The product of those trips, The Big Thaw is the only book that looks at global warming's wide-ranging impact on the Arctic. Struzik melds the vivid stories of his experiences with fascinating explorations of the Arctic's past—from the alligators and giant tortoises that inhabited the north 55 million years ago, to the 19th century explorers who died searching for the Open Polar Sea—and its possible future as the center of international struggle, underground smuggling and ecological disaster.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Map
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One - Nanuq: In The Tracks of the Great Wanderer
  6. Chapter Two - The Lost World
  7. Chapter Three - Changing Landscapes
  8. Chapter Four - In Northern Mists
  9. Chapter Five - Arctic Outbreak
  10. Chapter Six - Waking the Dead
  11. Chapter Seven - IQ
  12. Chapter Eight - Caribou Crash
  13. Chapter Nine - Rich Squirrel, Poor Squirrel
  14. Chapter Ten - The Coldest War
  15. Epilogue
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Plates
  18. Copyright
  19. About the Publisher