True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean by Arms, Myron

True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780942679335)

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True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean by Arms, Myron

True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean

$16.95
True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean by Arms, Myron

True North: Journeys Into the Great Northern Ocean

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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From the fiords of northern Labrador to the ice fields of western Greenland, from the outports of Newfoundland to the tiny fishing villages of Iceland and the Faroe Isles, bestselling author and lifelong sailor Myron Arms chronicles the experience of two-and-a-half decades of voyaging into some of the most remote destinations on Earth.

Presented as a series of sixteen personal essays, True North is at once a tale of white-knuckled adventure, a celebration of natural places, and a quest for contact with the planet we live on. The first five essays explore the motives of the author and those who sail with him on their first forays into the summer Atlantic. The next six essays evoke the allure of northern landscapes--the challenges of a stormy night at sea, the uncanny light of the Arctic sun at midnight, the pathos of pilot whales being driven to slaughter. The final five essays explore the geology, the archeology, the biochemistry, and the natural history of these same northern landscapes, broadening and universalizing their meaning until they become windows into the complex workings of the planet itself.

Thought-provoking and environmentally savvy, True North expresses one man's fierce determination "to encounter the natural world, to live deliberately within it, to strive to minimize one's footprint upon it, and to bear witness to it before it is altered irretrievably--before it is lost."

Author: Myron Arms
ISBN-10: 0942679334
ISBN-13: 9780942679335
Publisher: Upper Access
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2021
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.49d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2009 pg. 47
By Myron Arms
By Myron Arms
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Educated with graduate degrees at both Yale and Harvard, Myron Arms is a writer, lecturer, and professional small-boat sailor. He is author of several books, including Boston Globe bestseller Riddle of the Ice, and has published more than fifty feature articles in Cruising World, Sail, Blue Water Sailing, and many other sailing and adventure magazines.

A US Coast Guard-licensed Ocean Master since 1977, he and his wife, Kay, have now voyaged over 130,000 sea miles, including two high-latitude crossings of the North Atlantic, a voyage to western Greenland, and eight summer sail-training voyages to the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

As this book went to press, he began his ninth journey to northern Newfoundland with a group of new sail trainees. Readers may sample his other writing and may follow this and other sailing adventures on the web at www.myronarms.com.

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