Neil Shea — Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic - with Peter Gwin

As warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic--a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern problems--is quickly coming undone. While the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the movements of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, or the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, look closer and you'll find a new Arctic emerging in its place.In Frostlines, Neil Shea blends natural history, anthropology, and travel writing to explore how the beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the lives of people and animals. He sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada's Ellesmere Island and travels with Indigenous hunters in Alaska, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. He tracks dwindling caribou herds across the top of North America, searches for vanished Vikings in Greenland, and explores the new Cold War rising between Russia and Europe. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many--all still linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and a pure, inimitable light.Written with masterful prose and a spark of adventure, Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of transformation, and a journey along the threshold of this stunning and sometimes frightening world that's emerging right before our eyes.Neil Shea is a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn. He's written for National Geographic for over fifteen years, reporting around the world at the intersections of conflict, climate science, and cultural change. He's a co creator of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast Unfinished: Deep South, and he also writes for film and television, scripted and documentary.Shea will be in conversation with Peter Gwin, an award-winning writer and Shea’s longtime editor at National Geographic. Over his two decade career at the magazine, Gwin headed its adventure and exploration coverage and hosted the podcast, Overheard. He’s contributed feature stories on a wide range of subjects, including pirates in the Malacca Straits, South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis, ship breakers in Bangladesh, the Serengeti's wildebeest migration, Tuareg rebels in the Aïr Mountains, and exploring New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness on horseback. A native of Fayette County, Georgia, he began his career as an English teacher and freelance writer in a small village in northern Botswana.https://politics-prose.com/book/9780063138575?ic_referral=HmprpqRmomPfCgiARCQH1R0rZvZl6McFvos0s5btUEQwM8FGfBKxr4wblaB6x2HsJqkocDXEOGisNZ1knZoFZFJrgO5949DK3ZLRYDFPbTGHiosIPlksgwE9M3-5i2Yqd5XmUaY