Jean Mcneil

Latitudes (eBook, ePUB)

Encounters with a Changing Planet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Latitudes is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writer's life-long experience of reckoning with an epoch of heat, as well as posing urgent questions informed by years of writing about climate change and the natural world.



What does it feel like to be alive in the Anthropocene?



An account of thirty years of living in and writing about some of the world's last remaining wild places, Latitudes ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada. It combines place-based writing, memoir and travelogue to offer a witness account of the living in and writing about nature, the wilderness and the environment in the Anthropocene.



Latitudes also explores questions central to creative writing and artistic practice. Through her long experience of reading and teaching fiction and non-fiction, in particular nature writing, McNeil examines the question of the role of writers in an age of dramatic ecological loss. Only by mustering a radical attentiveness to the non-human world, the book argues, will we rediscover our balance, individually and as a civilisation, and gain perspective on the uncanniness of our present era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbican Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909954137
• Artikelnr.: 69914914

Autorenporträt

Jean McNeil is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published fifteen books, spanning fiction, memoir, poetry, essays and travel. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Journey Prize for Short Fiction, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation literary awards (twice) and the Pushcart Prize. She has twice won the Prism International Prize, once for short fiction and again for creative non-fiction. Her account of being writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica, Ice Diaries, won both the Adventure Travel and Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2016. Her most recent novel, Day for Night, was awarded the gold medal in the literary fiction category of the Independent Publishers Awards in the US in 2022. She has been writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica, with the Natural Environment Research Council in Greenland, and has undertaken official residencies in the Falkland Islands and in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. For the past 15 years she has lived for part of the year in South Africa and Kenya, where she is a trained safari guide. McNeil is Professor and Director of the Creative Writing programme at the University of East Anglia and lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
ix
Part I: We Walked Out of This Land
1
Ephemeral
8
Running
13
The Edge of Reality
17
The Quenching
23
The Trophic Pyramid
28
Part II: The Bowl of Winter
35
Uncharted Waters
42
Albedo
48
Paleo People
54
Ilulissat
59
Hotel Arctic
63
Part III: The End of Desire
71
Las Islas
78
Stone Runs
83
Storm Petrel
90
Part IV: Bitter Pastoral
99
The Land With No Fat
105
The Skeleton Coast
110
Part V: The Blue Desert
121
Departures
132
The Ninth Wave
135
Crossing the Line
141
Dark Ocean
148
Part VI: Bush of Ghosts
157
Lion Charge
163
The Ivory Trail
169
The Firing Range
176
Black Mamba
180
Part VII: The Land of Letting Go
191
Bluefields
197
Magic!
202
The Last Glacial Maximum
210
The Far Field
216
Part VIII: The Rainy Season
221
Cloudforest
227
All Men Want to Know
232
Currents
237
Part IX: Boreal
243
The Quickening
251
Latitudes
257
Epilogue
261
Acknowledgements
267