Full Description
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."
Contents
Kongakut River, Easter Island, August 2008, July 2013
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, Utqiagvik
The People of the Whale
Spring Whaling
Dinosaurs and Wind on the Colville River
