Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in this bonus Nature of Writing event with Jon Waterman! Into the Thaw alternates between adventure and wilderness memoir, side-noted with scholarly research into climate change and natural history. Waterman recounts encounters with bears, enduring weeks alone amidst swarms of mosquitoes, and witnessing phenomena like the Greening of the Arctic, teardrop-shaped landslides (thermokarsts) caused by thawing permafrost, and an increasing loss of sea ice as he travels along the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
The book features 78 stunning color photographs and a half dozen detailed maps. Complimentary Reader's and Teacher's Guides, as well as an interactive story map, will be available at Patagonia.com. With humor and humility, Waterman not only shows how climate change has impacted the land, sea, and animals, but also the kindhearted, welcoming Inuit people. Most affected by a crisis that has heated up the Arctic several times faster than the rest of the world, the ever-resilient villagers share how their age-old culture has attempted to cope with "the thaw." Waterman paints an intimate portrait of the North—with its treasured parklands—because "it's high time that we truly understand the Arctic," he writes, "lest we forget what it once was."
