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Most of us will never visit the Arctic, an almost incomprehensibly remote area of the world known for its extraordinary cold, storied traditions and colossal beauty. No matter: in Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic, Neil Shea brings the Arctic to stunning, awe-inspiring life, offering readers a richly detailed, up-close look at the ways in which climate change is transforming the region and the people and animals who call it home. Brooklyn-based Shea has been fascinated by the Arctic—and covering it for National Geographic—since his first reporting trip there in 2005. (He’s also the co-creator of Peabody Award-nominated podcast “Unfinished: Deep South” and recipient of various awards for his journalism.) He later gained a fuller understanding of the word “Arctic,” noting that “it’s a term that’s been placed like a net over the northern part of the globe” but “Indigenous perspectives are quite different. . . . The word carries a meaning of land, but it can expand to describe a sense of country, belonging, or even the territories of animals.” While Shea’s multiple visits to the Arctic were outstanding opportunities to chronicle the effects of climate change on the Arctic cryosphere (the portions of the Earth consisting of frozen water), what he emphasizes in Frostlines is “a sense of the stakes.” Whether he’s following wolves across Canada’s Fosheim Peninsula; traveling with the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, as they hunt for dwindling caribou herds; or observing an archaeological dig at a Viking cemetery in Greenland, he’s considering what’s changed and what’s remained, offering historical context, contemporary concerns and his own insights along the way. His writing is both poetic and practical, conveying the sweeping scale of his adventures and the deeply personal experiences of the people who invited him into their lives. Striking color photos round out the immersive experience that is Frostlines. It’s an enlightening, inspiring read, with Shea as readers’ heartfelt guide to the Arctic’s “shifting edges of ice and water, earth and stone, trees, light, darkness.”