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Latitudes - by Jean McNeil (Paperback)

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  • "McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature.
  • Author(s): Jean McNeil
  • 280 Pages
  • Literary Collections, Essays

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About the Book



"Relating thirty years of living in and writing about some of the world's last remaining wild places, Latitudes is a thrilling and thought-provoking exploration of a changing planet. At once memoir, journal and travelogue of Earth's wildernesses, Latitudes ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada."--Provided by publisher



Book Synopsis



"McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff." Publishers Weekly


"Meditative and sumptuous... Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change." Foreword Reviews


"Full of lived experience, this book ponders the question of our own animal relationship with the planet, between what we know and what we feel, between mind and body, instinct and intellect." Julia Bell, author of Massive and Hymnal


"Her shimmering prose brings into sharp focus the beauty of the remote places where we can glimpse - and sometimes hear - what our planet was like before us. And what it might be in the silence that will come after the frenzy of human dominance." Margie Orford


"This one has knocked me sideways: it's, on a sentence-by-sentence level, honestly the best thing I've read this year." Georgina Godwin, Monocle Radio


Relating thirty years of living in and writing about some of the world's last remaining wild places, Latitudes is a thrilling and thought-provoking exploration of a changing planet. At once memoir, journal and travelogue of Earth's wildernesses, Latitudes ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada.


Latitudes is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writer's life-long experience of reckoning with an age of dramatic ecological loss. It shows us the importance of listening to the living world that is speaking to us, if we open ourselves to hear its voice.



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"In this meditative essay collection, McNeil (Fire on the Mountain) draws from decades of travel to the world's most remote places to reflect on the beauty and terror of wild landscapes that are under ecological threat. Whether she's recounting her time as a writer-in-residence on an Antarctic research station, an observer aboard a research vessel off the coast of Greenland, or a trainee in an African safari guide program, McNeil captures nature in evocative and dexterous prose... McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff." - Publishers Weekly


"Meditative and sumptuous, Latitudes is Jean McNeil's brooding memoir covering travels to remote landscapes; it ruminates on the unsettling impacts of climate change. McNeil is an inquisitive, restless traveler who crafts beautiful and profound passages about her journeys to unusual places. Depicting the splendor of diverse landscapes around the globe, Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change." -- Foreword Reviews, Starred Review


"McNeil's lifetime of exploratory journeys have taken her into landscapes that vanishingly few of us will ever see. In shimmering prose, and with her fiercely ethical and sharp eye, McNeil conjures maps of lands known and unknown. Latitudes is a book of great beauty." -- Margie Orford, author of The Eye of the Beholder


"Full of lived experience, this book ponders the question of our own animal relationship with the planet, between what we know and what we feel, between mind and body, instinct and intellect." -- Julia Bell, author of Massive and Hymnal


"This one has knocked me sideways: it's, on a sentence-by-sentence level, honestly the best thing I've read this year... It's a really brave examination of self and of humankind, but ultimately it's a beautiful love letter to the Earth." -- Georgina Godwin, Monocle Radio


Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 280
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Essays
Publisher: Barbican Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jean McNeil
Language: English
Street Date: March 25, 2025
TCIN: 91079323
UPC: 9781909954113
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-1326
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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