The Magnetic North

A wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and always engaging. Wheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places, has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody’s The Other Side of Eden – Rory MacLean * Sunday Times *
An excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to earth – Fergus Fleming * Literary Review *
Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, and joy shine through…a rare and precious talent – Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *
Beautiful and terrifying * The Times *
Wheeler’s book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far north, which is valuable – Kathleen James * Guardian *
Wheeler’s beautiful language and riveting narrative add up to a powerful account of what is at stake and what has already been lost * Irish Times *
An ambitious, adventurous, well-researched, spirited account – Robert Carver * The Tablet *
[Wheeler brings] and open-eyed sense of salutary wisdom and timely protest to her view of the Arctic Ocean and its surrounds – Tom Adair * The Scotsman *
Elegant prose … a stylish and engaing account of some of the world’s most mysterious, unknowable spots and, like the best travel writing, is infused with the writer’s reflections on growing up, life and death – Clover Stroud * Telegraph *
A funny, entertaining and humane piece of writing – Jeremy Lewis * The Oldie *

Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita- Travels in Antarctica. The Magnetic North- Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers- Cherry- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun- The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.

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