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The Magnetic North is a wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and always engaging. Wheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places, has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden -- Rory Maclean The Sunday Times A superb account of her circumpolar wanderings... Wheeler is an excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth -- Fergus Fleming Literary Review Wheeler writes about travel so well because she delights in travelling. Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, joy and with hshine through even the saddest page of The Magnetic North... she has a rare and precious talent -- Roger Hutchinson Scotsman A fusion of history and myth...elegant and intelligent Books Quarterly Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable -- Kathleen James The Guardian

A wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and always engaging. Wheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places, has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden -- Rory MacLean * Sunday Times * An excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth -- Fergus Fleming * Literary Review * Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, and joy shine through...a rare and precious talent -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman * Beautiful and terrifying * The Times * Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable -- Kathleen James * Guardian *

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Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita- Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, 'I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.' The Magnetic North- Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers- Cherry- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun- The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.

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