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Latitudes

Encounters with a Changing Planet

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" McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff. " Publishers Weekly
" Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change. " Foreword Reviews
" Full of lived experience, this book ponders the question of our own animal relationship with the planet, between what we know and what we feel, between mind and body, instinct and intellect. " Julia Bell, author of Massive and Hymnal
" Her shimmering prose brings into sharp focus the beauty of the remote places where we can glimpse – and sometimes hear – what our planet was like before us. And what it might be in the silence that will come after the frenzy of human dominance. " Margie Orford
Relating thirty years of living in and writing about some of the world's last remaining wild places, Latitudes is a thrilling and thought-provoking exploration of a changing planet. At once memoir, journal and travelogue of Earth's wildernesses, Latitudes ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada.
Latitudes is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writer's life-long experience of reckoning with an age of dramatic ecological loss. It shows us the importance of listening to the living world that is speaking to us, if we open ourselves to hear its voice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrologueixPart I: We Walked Out of This Land1Ephemeral8Running13The Edge of Reality17The Quenching23The Trophic Pyramid28Part II: The Bowl of Winter35Uncharted Waters42Albedo48Paleo People54Ilulissat59Hotel Arctic63Part III: The End of Desire71Las Islas78Stone Runs83Storm Petrel90Part IV: Bitter Pastoral99The Land With No Fat105The Skeleton Coast110Part V: The Blue Desert121Departures132The Ninth Wave135Crossing the Line141Dark Ocean148Part VI: Bush of Ghosts157Lion Charge163The Ivory Trail169The Firing Range176Black Mamba180Part VII: The Land of Letting Go191Bluefields197Magic!202The Last Glacial Maximum210The Far Field216Part VIII: The Rainy Season221Cloudforest227All Men Want to Know232Currents237Part IX: Boreal243The Quickening251Latitudes257Epilogue261Acknowledgements267

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
25. März 2025
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
280
Autor/Autorin
Jean Mcneil
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
283 g
Größe (L/B/H)
203/127/15 mm
ISBN
9781909954113

Portrait

Jean Mcneil

Jean McNeil is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published fifteen books, spanning fiction, memoir, poetry, essays and travel. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Journey Prize for Short Fiction, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation literary awards (twice) and the Pushcart Prize. She has twice won the Prism International Prize, once for short fiction and again for creative non-fiction. Her account of being writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica, Ice Diaries, won both the Adventure Travel and Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2016. Her most recent novel, Day for Night, was awarded the gold medal in the literary fiction category of the Independent Publishers Awards in the US in 2022.

She has been writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica, with the Natural Environment Research Council in Greenland, and has undertaken official residencies in the Falkland Islands and in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. For the past 15 years she has lived for part of the year in South Africa and Kenya, where she is a trained safari guide. McNeil is Professor and Director of the Creative Writing programme at the University of East Anglia and lives in London.

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