Descripción
In 2015, in a tragic natural disaster, a massive avalanche descended on the small Arctic Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, leveling eleven houses and killing a child and a young father. In this arresting book, journalist Line Nagell Ylvisåker explores the effects of a warming planet up close and personal, from inside a remote community intimately attuned to its environment.
Ylvisåker introduces readers to her friends and neighbors, including dedicated meteorologists racing to anticipate future disasters and a veteran trapper who harbors doubts about climate change even as he bears witness to a constantly shifting landscape. Blending memoir, long-form journalism, and scientific reportage, she provides an intimate picture of life in a place where the effects of climate change can be seen in all their startling reality--and a compelling and hopeful argument for collective and cooperative action across the globe.
Author: Line Nagell Ylvisåker
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780299357344
ISBN10: 0299357341
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Science | Global Warming & Climate Change
- Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists
About the Author
Line Nagell Ylvisåker is an editor, journalist, and nonfiction writer living in the high Arctic. From 2006 to 2018, she worked for the newspaper Svalbardposten, where she received several awards for her writing about Svalbard; since 2023, she has served as Svalbardposten's editor in chief. She holds a master's degree from the University of Oslo and lectures on climate change throughout Norway.