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Rowing the Northwest Passage: adventure, fear, and awe in a rising sea / Kevin Vallely.

by Vallely, Kevin.

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Greystone Books, 2017.

910.916327 V182r

Vallely, Kevin -- Travel -- Northwest Passage.

Rowing -- Northwest Passage.

Adventure and adventurers.

Northwest Passage -- Description and travel.

Arctic regions -- Description and travel.

9781771641340 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Adventure, fear, and awe in a rising sea

226 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

"Four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change. The team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity and unpredictability and bears witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from climate change deniers who have taken to social media to attack them and undermine their efforts. Author Kevin Vallely is an architect, adventurer and member of the Explorer's Club.

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