Book of the Week - The Magnetic North
Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean
Book of the Week - The Magnetic North - Alaska and Canada
Sara Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in the wide spaces of Alaska and visits a bedrock-mapping project on an isolated Canadian island.
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Book of the Week - The Magnetic North - Greenland
Sara Wheeler is struck by some of the paradoxes of climate change as she flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet.
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Book of the Week - The Magnetic North - Svalbard and the North East Passage
Sara Wheeler remembers some of the explorers who have sought the North Pole - by boat, on foot and even by hot air balloon.
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Book of the Week - The Magnetic North - The Arctic Defined
Sara Wheeler considers what the Arctic means to the rest of the world and begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia, nine time zones from Moscow.
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Book of the Week - The Magnetic North - The Gulag
Sara Wheeler journeys to a remote archipelago, visiting the ancient holy site which became one of the most feared places in 20th-century Russia.
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