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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Sunday Times bestselling tour-de-force from the author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways - an unmissable journey into the hidden worlds beneath our feet 'Into the underland...
A Woman in the Polar Night
In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She...
Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations,...
Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of
Pristine shamanism in Greenland is examined and the ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude...
Ice is Black
From majestic glaciers to vast frozen plains as far as the eye can see, ice is just as important to the world's ecosystems as water, air, and trees. And yet...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
The Man Who Loved Siberia
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world....