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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler

Book Review – March 2022 Herds of reindeer move across ice and snow. Slim-shouldered Lapps squatting on skidoos nose their animals towards an arc of stockades. A man in a corral holds a pair of velvet antlers while another jabs … Continue reading

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Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

Book Review – November 2021 We dreamed about what our new cabin would look like. The room would have four windows, one in each wall. Towards the south-east we’d need to see the big storms that rage right across the … Continue reading

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