Arctic Book Club

Exploring the Arctic through books

[Arctic Book Club @ArcticBookClub]

Book of the Month : October ❄

ISLAND DREAMS by Gavin Francis

"Islands are inseparable from stories. From Odysseus’s Ithaca to Prospero’s place of exile, they are way-stations for the imagination" writes
@AHABDiggins in @TheEconomist https://t.co/cTUOTDxj2D

[Christian Drury @cj_drury]

A nice example of mountain tourism networks: an 1890s postcard of Spiterstulen turisthytte in Jotunheimen, produced by Mittet & Co. (from the Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen collection)

[Jane Rushton @janerushtonart]

Today’s lost horizon.

[Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfield]

I forgot to mention this beautiful book has a jacket made from plastic recovered from the sea + essays in English and Norwegian from Philip Hoare, Dora Garcia, Frank Nilsen and me + @ArticaSvalbard will send you a copy for the price of the postage if you want one 🐚

[Nest Isacat @NestIsacat]

@cheapsellotape @ArcticExplorers @arctic_in @ArcticBookClub @_polarbearpunk @Polarbookclub @KevOBrien07 @sarahb_polar @maks_rebisz @Svalbard_Museum @visitsvalbard Agree 100%.

[Christian Drury @cj_drury]

Maps of the routes taken in Svalbard by the 1933 Oxford University Arctic Expedition, from A.R. Glen's Young Men in the Arctic (Faber and Faber, 1935)

[Dr. Sarah Thomas @journeysinbtwn]

Deeply honoured by this intricate review of #TheRavensNest by @LearningEarth in @tweetbytheriver, an echo of how Iceland made me think & feel. Takk!🙏

Lucky too to have shared #kvöldvaka with Amy & her darning, experiencing book in its full orality.

https://t.co/wUV0uFZe6b

[Dr Isabelle Gapp @issy_gapp]

Not a bad way to start the day, with a visit to the @Fisher_Library to look over some C19 Arctic publications. Look at that map and that marbling from 1818!

[Dr. Sarah Thomas @journeysinbtwn]

TOMORROW #kvöldvaka ('the evening wake'), an Icelandic tradition in autumn & winter, where someone reads aloud to the household while they knit & spin & mend.

Come join me 7pm with your knitting needles @StanfordsTravel as I read from #TheRavensNest.

https://t.co/8718XWt4wX

[Nasugraq R. Hopson (EAGLE DRUMS book) @Nasugraq]

‘Tasting Light’ is available October 11th! My short story, ‘the weight of a name’ is a look into what our indigenous culture and community might look like 300 years into the future. I wrote this for the nerdy little Inupiaq girl I was (and still am). #inupiaq #indigenous #author

[paintedspoken @paintedspoken]

Lovely review for Owner of the Sea (yes they are still happening!) by Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir in the Bottle Imp. https://t.co/9yszfQIjsZ

[Dr. Sarah Thomas @journeysinbtwn]

Autumn's here and I'm hitting the road! Looking forward to bringing #kvöldvaka (readings-with-mending) & conversation up and down UK.

More info: https://t.co/4hcfzrSnm1

[Dr Isabelle Gapp @issy_gapp]

The sixth essay in our @NiCHE_Canada 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North' series is by @mattfarish. Centred around a photograph taken during Operation Franklin (1955), Farish explores the objectives that underpinned this Arctic image and operation. https://t.co/yYKAxrrrsV

[Caught by the River @tweetbytheriver]

'The generous light of a July horizon [steams] with spouts of spray; curved backs breaching and vanishing in a slick of black; birds circling overhead. Humpbacks probably. It is an auspicious start to a book tour.'

@journeysinbtwn heads to the Westfjords https://t.co/lkRYhUBKeD

[H. Hansen-Magnusson @HansenMagnusson]

How we understand the #Arctic matters.
But: "The polar bear imagery that thrived...in advertising became an unwitting nod to the deep entanglements of capitalism, consumerism, and climate change" writes @ivana_dizdar on @ArcticRelations
read it here 👇👇
https://t.co/uZyDrTScUp

[Ivana Dizdar @ivana_dizdar]

I wrote about Coca-Cola advertising for Arctic Relations! Thanks to @CharlyGehrke and @HansenMagnusson for enabling my addiction to polar bear imagery.

[Caroline Hack @CarolineHack]

A section of my new textile panel ‘Baffin Bay’ for Arctic Ventures: Forgotten Stories of #Scottish Whaling opening on Friday @scotfishmuseum as part of #ScotlandsYearOfStories

This bit is 40 cm wide, the whole thing is ~80cm wide and ~150cm high

[Dr Isabelle Gapp @issy_gapp]

The third essay in our @NiCHE_Canada series 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North' is by @sarahmpicks. A superb piece that unpicks the heroic, colonial, chauvinist, and racial narratives of polar exploration through the illustrated periodical 'Puck'. https://t.co/Ozi6eykLlA

[Klaus Dodds @klausdodds]

Finally got my hands on a copy of #Ice #Humanities - a book that was co-edited with Professor Sverker Sorlin from @KTHEnvHumsLab and produced by the editorial staff attached @ManchesterUP who were a pleasure to work with. It builds on a wealth of scholarship and experience of ice

[Christian Drury @cj_drury]

Following my placement at @natlibscot, I've written a blogpost about John Francis Campbell's multimedia journals from Sápmi, looking at fishing, whaling and Sámi newspapers: https://t.co/J1LTvH3tGd

[nancyfjorde.bsky.social @nancyfordephoto]

@nancycampbelle Was honoured to attend Ms. Talaga's delivery of her 5th Massey lecture in the series in Toronto in person. "All Our Relations"=series of Massey Lectures she was invited to give as Fellow that year. You can listen to them via podcast, too. Superb. Vital. ♥️ https://t.co/M7sUHsxipU