Magnetic North

Author : Sara Wheeler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429991941

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A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming. Inspired by the spiraling shape of a reindeer-horn bangle, she travels counterclockwise around the North Pole through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, marking the transformations of what once seemed an unchangeable landscape. As she witnesses the mounting pollution concentrated at the pole, Wheeler reckons with the illness of the whole organism of the earth. Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, shadowing the endless Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a tough Idaho-born outdoorswoman, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting the haunting, deceptively peaceful lands of the Gulag, Wheeler brings the Arctic's many contradictions to life. The Magnetic North is an urgent, beautiful book, rich in dramatic description and vivid reporting. It is a singular, deeply personal portrait of a region growing daily in global importance.

Author : Martina Weinhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791359946

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This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity. The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned away from city life and explored Canada's landscape, painting sublime vistas, monumental rivers, ancient forests around the great lakes, the mighty Rocky Mountains, and the arctic tundra, determined to break away from European stylistic traditions. Together, their paintings imagined a mythical Canada, expansive and rugged, that added to their country's growing sense of national pride. Featuring paintings, sketches, photographs, film stills, and documentary material, this catalog examines the language of Canadian modernism. It also includes essays and interviews that offer contemporary indigenous perspectives on the impact of industry on nature, issues surrounding national identity, and modern Canadian landscape painting. This generously illustrated book critically reviews Canada's modernism in art history.

Author : Alan Hustak
Publisher : Squint Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1912477963

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Magnetic North: the Unauthorised Biography of Justin Trudeau by Alan Hustak Pdf

Justin Trudeau: scion of political royalty, privileged member of the 'Canadian Kennedy' dynasty, neglected son of difficult parents, actor, hot-tempered young delegate, selfie-taker, and possibly the world's most popular and telegenic leader. This thrilling book traces the remarkable rise of Justin Trudeau to become a desired and admired world leader in the grim age of Trump and Twitter. Trudeau manages to stay on good terms with The Donald while pushing through major reforms in Canada and remaining adored by fans abroad and at home. How does he do it? The secret may be in his backstory: Trudeau's political identity depends on his upbringing. Alan Hustak has been granted unprecedented access from friends and relatives of both Pierre and the young Justin Trudeau. Exposing Trudeau's childhood spent with a cold father, his experiences acting and teaching in Vancouver, and his eventual acceptance that his destiny lay in politics, Hustak weighs up the man against the objectified myth, and analyzes the evidence for Trudeau's sincerity, honesty and dedication to change. Is Trudeau truly the herald of a better kind of politics--or is this progressive agenda just a people-pleasing mask?

Author : David Halsey,Diana Landau
Publisher : Sierra Club Books for Children
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0871565668

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Magnetic North by David Halsey,Diana Landau Pdf

Author : Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465861

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Magnetic North by Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey Pdf

Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.

Author : Linda Gregerson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0547085761

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This stunning collection from the award-winning poet Linda Gregerson examines the intersections of history, science, and art. Touching on subjects as diverse as a breakthrough discovery in cell biology and the films of Ingmar Bergman, the anatomy of a possum and the Nazi occupation of Poland, Gregerson seeks to distill "the shape of the question," the tenuous connection between knowing and suffering, between the brightness of the body and the shadows of the mind. "Choose any angle you like," she writes, "the world is split in two." Longtime readers of Gregerson's poetry will be fascinated by her departure from the supple tercets in which she has worked for nearly twenty years: Magnetic North is a bold anthology of formal experiments. It is also a heartening act of sustained attention from one of our most mindful American poets

Author : Jenna Butler
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781772123821

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“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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0873516230

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Toward Magnetic North by Anonim Pdf

Ernest Carl Oberholtzer was a central figure in the struggle to preserve the wilderness areas of the Minnesota-Ontario border, as well as an important advocate for the creation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Toward Magnetic North is the story of Ernest Oberholtzer and Billy Magee's exploration of the then uncharted area of Saskatchewan up to Hudson Bay and into Manitoba. Oberholtzer's photos and journal entries capture the spirit of the wild places that he loved and admired.

Author : Jenny Lion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816637792

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"Occasionally shocking, often funny, and above all genuinely experimental, this collection explores developments in the field of Canadian video often overlooked in the United States. With critical essays on video theory and practice by senior and emerging media arts critics, theorists, and artists from the United States and Canada, Magnetic North offers an in-depth look at this vital art form." "Magnetic North includes early Canadian video art from the 1970s to the present, providing historical perspective and the basis for positioning this work in an international context. More than forty artists are represented, spanning divergent regions, eras, and genres that range from innovative documentary to conceptual art from experimental narrative to performance video. This compendium not only illustrates an important exhibition of established and emerging Canadian video artists, but also provides new scholarship and criticism in the field of contemporary art practice." "Critical essays by Peggy Gale, Nicole Gingras, Bruce Jenkins, Victor Masayesva, and Chris Straayer create a context for the work and cover topics such as the history of Canadian video, voice and language, materiality and hybridity, indigenous aesthetics, and the body and performance. A unique feature is impressions and responses to the work from a number of prominent filmmakers, artists, and writers, including George Lipsitz, Yvonne Rainer, and Carrie Mae Weems, which were commissioned for this volume. Also included are excerpts from scripts and fiction by some of the artists, as well as work in other media."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Margaret Andera,Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060051268

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Magnetic North by Margaret Andera,Lucy R. Lippard Pdf

Magnetic North: the Landscapes of Tom Uttech presents a survey of more than thirty years of Tom Uttech’s art. Uttech – one of the most widely admired landscape painters in America – reestablishes the wilderness as a mystical place where the colors of nature flourish and the various forces of nature are played out. He is inspired by the northern woods and prairie of Wisconsin and his numerous camping and canoeing trips to Northern Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

Author : Preety Sengupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8123719434

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My Journey To The Magnetic North Pole by Preety Sengupta Pdf

Author : J.L. Dormann,D. Fiorani
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444597410

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Magnetic Properties of Fine Particles by J.L. Dormann,D. Fiorani Pdf

The aim of this volume is to advance the understanding of the fundamental properties of fine magnetic particles and to discuss the latest developments from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints, with special emphasis being placed on the applications in different branches of science and technology. All aspects of fine magnetic particles are covered in the 46 papers. The topics are remarkably interdisciplinary covering theory, materials preparation, structural characterization, optical and electrical properties, magnetic properties studied by different techniques and applications. Some new fundamental properties, such as quantum tunneling and transverse fluctuations of magnetic moments are also explored. Research workers involved in these aspects of materials technology will find this book of great interest.

Author : Elizabeth Robins
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465585868

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Of course they were bound for the Klondyke. Every creature in the North-west was bound for the Klondyke. Men from the South too, and men from the East, had left their ploughs and their pens, their factories, pulpits, and easy-chairs, each man like a magnetic needle suddenly set free and turning sharply to the North; all set pointing the self-same way since that July day in '97, when the Excelsior sailed into San Francisco harbour, bringing from the uttermost regions at the top of the map close upon a million dollars in nuggets and in gold-dust. Some distance this side of the Arctic Circle, on the right bank of the Yukon, a little detachment of that great army pressing northward, had been wrecked early in the month of September. They had realised, on leaving the ocean-going ship that landed them at St. Michael's Island (near the mouth of the great river), that they could not hope to reach Dawson that year. But instead of "getting cold feet," as the phrase for discouragement ran, and turning back as thousands did, or putting in the winter on the coast, they determined, with an eye to the spring rush, to cover as many as possible of the seventeen hundred miles of waterway before navigation closed.

Author : David Greenhood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1964-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226306976

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Mapping by David Greenhood Pdf

Part I. Getting the Most Out of Maps1. How to Find Places: Coordinates2. The Versatile Plane: Great Circles3. This Little Means That Much: Distance4. The Rose of the Winds: Directions5. Making Molehills Out of Mountains: Content6. Flat Maps with Round Meanings: ProjectionsPart II. Making Your Own7. Basing Maps on Other Maps: Compilation8. Basing Maps upon the Ground: Survey9. Treasures, Tools, and Materials: EquipmentAppendix. Useful FiguresIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Louis Agricola Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Geomagnetism
ISBN : UOM:39015086763854

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United States Magnetic Declination Tables and Isogonic Charts for 1902 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Louis Agricola Bauer Pdf