Author Talk with National Geographic Writer Neil Shea: Frostlines

Titcomb's Bookshop and the Sandwich Public Library are thrilled to present National Geographic writer Neil Shea to speak about his new nonfiction book Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic on Thursday, January 15th at 6:00 PM at the Sandwich Public Library.

Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331. Those who cannot attend may order a signed copy of Frostlines here.

ABOUT THE BOOK

“[Frostlines weaves] together natural history, indigenous perspective, and environmental transformation in the Arctic. The book helps bring a human story to the science of climate change.”—Parade

A sweeping exploration of the Arctic—and how it’s being transformed by climate change—from National Geographic writer Neil Shea

As warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic—a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern problems—is quickly coming undone. While the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the movements of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Iñupiaq elder, look closer and you’ll find a new Arctic appearing in its place.

In Frostlines, Neil Shea blends natural history, anthropology, and travel writing to explore how the beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the lives of people and animals. He sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada’s Ellesmere Island and travels with Indigenous hunters in Alaska, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. He tracks dwindling caribou herds across the top of North America, searches for vanished Vikings in Greenland, and visits the front line of the new Cold War rising between Russia and Europe. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many—all still linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and a pure, inimitable light.

Written with masterful prose and a spark of adventure, Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of transformation, and a journey along the threshold of a stunning and sometimes frightening world that’s emerging right before our eyes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Neil Shea is a writer with National Geographic and for 20 years he's traveled the world covering stories at the intersection of conflict, climate, and cultural change. His work has taken him from northern Iraq and the deserts of central Mexico to caves below Borneo and the megacities of Japan. Recently he's focused on the incredible transformations sweeping across the Arctic. Neil is also a contributing editor with The American Scholar and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and he's a co-creator of the Peabody-nominated podcast "Unfinished: Deep South," which investigated the life, legacy, and lynching of an Arkansas farmer at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era. Frostlines is his first book.