At the edge of the world – in search of a polar culture
By Harald Dag Jølle
Historian Harald Dag Jølle has followed the sled tracks of polar heroes to the South Pole, the Northwest Passage and the northern tip of Greenland. He has traveled on expeditions with researchers who capture polar bears, detect distress, monitor birdlife and investigate the deep Arctic Ocean. They all see a changing polar nature. In this book, Jølle takes us to the edge of the world and tells about the powerful landscape, about the questions today's researchers are searching for in the ice, and how the view of polar nature has changed. He tells about people who have been here before us – and asks whether we can still talk about a Norwegian polar culture. Here you will gain new insights and exciting stories – told from the field – with the perspectives of a historian who knows what it is like to freeze your fingers.
