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Author Butler, Jenna, author.

Title Magnetic North : sea voyage to Svalbard / Jenna Butler.

Publication Info. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2018.
©2018

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Edition First electronic edition, 2018.
Description 1 online resource.
text file
Physical Medium polychrome
Series [Wayfarer]
Wayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.)
Contents The journey -- Lines toward ice -- Pyramiden -- Ornithomancy -- Night -- Bone -- The men at the edge of the world -- She becomes the ocean -- Arctic by air -- Afloat -- Barentsburg -- Cusp -- Postcard from Svalbard -- At the face -- Threads -- Leaving days -- Song to the boreal.
Access Access restricted to LAC onsite cllients. Online access with authorization. CaOONL
Summary A sea voyage connecting continents traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands.
""Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is bornÈ. From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands. With a conservationist, female gaze, she questions explorer narratives and the mythic draw of the polar North. As a woman who cannot have children, she writes out the internal friction of travelling in Svalbard during the fertile height of the Arctic summer. Blending travelogue and poetic meditation on place, Jenna Butler draws readers to the beauty and power of threatened landscapes, asking why some stories in recorded history are privileged while others speak only from beneath the surface"-- Publisher's description. https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/919-9781772123821-magnetic-north
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Subject Butler, Jenna -- Travel -- Norway -- Svalbard.
Ocean travel.
Ocean travel.
Climatic changes -- Arctic regions.
Climatic changes.
Arctic Regions.
Feminism.
Feminism.
Svalbard (Norway) -- Description and travel.
Ocean travel -- Poetry.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject Svalbard (Norway) -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry.
Canadian poetry.
Indexed Term Arctic regions
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Other Form: Butler, Jenna, 1980- Magnetic north.: Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2018. Wayfarer (Edmonton, Alta.) Wayfarer (CaOONL)2018902559X
Print version: Butler, Jenna. Magnetic north. First edition. Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2018 177212382X 9781772123821 (DLC) 2017486219 (OCoLC)1018037799
ISBN 9781772124217 (EPUB)
1772124214
9781772124224 (Kindle)
1772124222
9781772124231 (PDF)
1772124230
9781772123821