Magnetic North, Jenna Butler
Magnetic North, Jenna Butler
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Magnetic North
Sea Voyage to Svalbard

Author: Jenna Butler

Narrator: Marysia Bucholc

Unabridged: 1 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/23/2021

Synopsis

“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 born.” 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leili

You all. I am now officially on the ARC Kool-Aid bus!! I got an audiobook copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review. So, here it is: 3.5: As others have said on here, this book is marketed as a science book. It is not. It is only very loosely related to science in that the author uses geolog......more

Goodreads review by Claudia

Although the promotional summary for this audiobook states: "Blending travelogue and poetic meditation", I was unprepared for, and not expecting, a book of poetry. I was expecting a book about a sea voyage to Svalbard. As I listened to the audiobook, Iwas unsure if I was listening to a table of cont......more

Goodreads review by Rhys

A gift of poetry. A journey outside of darkness. "I come home to the forest with a vastness behind my eyes, a consciousness of rock and light, an awareness of what's lost without the dark."......more

Goodreads review by Mandy

Beautifully emotive glimpse at a land few will ever visit. Jenna expresses the stunning but harrowing expanse of endless light and harshness of a place made of ice. She engages the reader in the human interaction, wildlife endeavors and the harsh history of the Arctic encased in time, forward and ba......more

Goodreads review by Anita

I am so disappointed. Not with the book itself. I just expected something different when I picked the audio version of this book. For some very odd reasons, this book was labelled as "Science" and "Travel", so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be Poetry. The narration by Marysia Bucholc is im......more

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