A novel of several parts set mainly around EUROPE
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
Location(s): Alaska, Arctic, Canada, Norway
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
Era(s): 2000
The author describes experiences as close to the edge of catastrophe as in any adventure book, but she rides them all out with grace, judgement and muscle, and her self-awareness, humor, and feeling for the animals, landscapes and forces around her make for great nature writing.
She rows more than 20,0000 miles of the Arctic -backwards, yes, rowing, while her husband travels forward paddling his kayak. Together they explore the rugged coastline of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. From Seattle, up the inside passage in SE Alaska, the Yukon River in Alaska’s interior, to the NW coast of Alaska, Barrow, Prudhoe Bay, Canada’s NW Territory, Greenland, the Labrador Sea and along the Norway’s coast, 20,000 miles….
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