So the shortest day came, and the year died: a poem about how humans have responded to midwinter - the fading of the light and its mighty return - for millennia, by a well known children's a... read more
A ravishing book that revels in this beautiful white stuff: writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell takes our minds and imaginations on a snowy journey to other cultures, other worlds - I... read more
The pitfalls of cultural fantasies of the north: this cultural history, rich with travellers' tales and legends, is entertaining but also disturbing as myth, reality and politics rub uncomfo... read more
A memoir about silence, from the mysterious things the adults didn't talk about during his childhood, to the vast silences of the Arctic that have occupied so much of his own adult life as w... read more
Arbugaeva was born in Yakutia, Siberia, so she knows well the ghostly, desolate beauty of that part of the world and the hardships of life there. Her photographs are superb.