The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson (Paperback)

The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson (Paperback, 2010)\nCondition\n\nPages crisp and clear with tight binding. Minimal wear to cover. See images\nProduct Details\n\n--Format - Paperback\n--Pages - 419\n\nSynopsis\nA vivid, visionary exploration of the Arctic, the forces that have shaped it, and its emergence onto the main stage of global affairs. 'For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine-these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which we filter all subsequent information about it. Yet many of those preconceptions- the same ones which, as a child, drew me towards the Arctic- are wrong.' Always lingering at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century- energy security and the struggle for natural r.