pickI‘ve been reading this a chapter a week with my book club, and it has been very enjoyable. Magnetic North is a travel log from a woman in the Arctic, and this edition had an afterword ten years later after climate change had really started to take hold. #NonFictionNovember
Lichens take nutrients from the air and so absorb many times more radioactive isotopes than other plants. #TodayILearned #NFN
#TodayILearned that traces of flame retardants were found in Arctic wildlife in the mid-1990‘s. #NFN
pickFor some reason, I love a “let‘s explore the Arctic, oops we got stuck in the ice!” story, and this one is the last voyage of William Barents. There‘s a whole lot of polar bears here, showing them as truly bold predators and the sailors going to every length possible to kill and sometimes mutilate the bears (it was a little hard to listen to). I finished the book on our walk today, so I figured I‘d show you Bindi with the elk antler she found.
#TodayILearned that the National Ice Core Lab in Denver stores ice from Greenland which scientists can petition to analyze. #NFN
#TodayILearned that there are no male High Arctic black flies. The females have figured out how to reproduce without them. #NFN
Made a date with myself this morning to catch up on my bookclub book and eat pie.
pickIn 1910-12, the author Ejnar and a boat mechanic Iver sledge along the west coast of #Greenland looking for notes from previous Danes whose exploration ended in their 3 deaths. Ejnar and Iver brave the coast for well more than a year trying to get back to their ship. They are good partners for this task who have one spat in all this time, over an imaginary girl. It‘s a brutal survival story with an excellent epilogue about how the author ⬇️
pickThis was a beautiful stunning book. Its the story of how an Inupiaq family survived on a boat trip in the Arctic. It explained how the mom sewn all the warm clothes for the crew and what they ate to survive in a cold unwavering environment. Artwork is just wonderful as the story itself.
