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North to the future : an offline adventure through the changing wilds of Alaska / Ben Weissenbach.

Weissenbach, Ben (author.).

Summary:

At the age of twenty-one, college student Ben Weissenbach set out into the Alaskan wilderness armed with little more than inspiration from his literary heroes and a growing interest in climate change. What meets him there is a landscape both stark and awe-inspiring-a part of the world seen by few outside a small contingent of scientists with big personalities. There's Roman Dial, the larger-than-life field scientist who leads him on a five week journey into the Alaskan backcountry. There's Kenji Yoshikawa, the isolated researcher who leaves Ben alone for eleven days to care for his remote cabin, where temperatures at night drop to -49 degrees Fahrenheit. And there's Matt Nolan, the independent glaciologist who flies planes onto glaciers. As Ben's mental and physical resilience is tested, he discovers far more than his own limits; struck by the landscape's staggering beauty and sheer indifference to humanity, Ben emerges from each experience with a new perspective on our modern relationships to technology-and a deep sense of wonder for our natural world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538758335
  • ISBN: 1538758334
  • Physical Description: xi, 305 pages : map ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : GCP, 2025.
Subject:
Weissenbach, Ben.
Adventure and adventurers > United States > Biography
Alaska > Description and travel
Climatic changes > Alaska.
Landscapes > Alaska.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Alaska.
Genre:
Autobiographies

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