Science and Nature Writing

  • Mostly travel writing by and about western women artists and scientists.
  • Not at all comprehensive for the Arctic, especially by and about native circumpolar peoples
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Science and Nature Writing
Pole Year Title Author
S 1991 The Moon by Whale Light (section 4 `White Lanterns') Diane Ackerman
S 2004 The Hunter's Breath: On Expedition With the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic Terrie Williams
N 2005 The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold Gretel Ehrlich
N 2005 Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance Mariana Gosnell
N 2005 Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic Marla Cone
N 2006 Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change Elizabeth Kolbert
S 2012 Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent Gabrielle Walker
N/S 2014 Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions Camille Seaman; Native American photographer documents polar landscapes
N 2018 In Search of the Canary Tree Lauren Oakes (Ecologist travels to Alaska to hunt for the dying yellow-cedar trees)