North to the Future

"North to the Future is a kind of bildungsroman of perception -- a story of learning to see and hear and feel by venturing out in the wild. It is a beautiful and necessary book."
 —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction

"Ben Weissenbach’s absorbing North to the Future is packed with fascinating and eccentric adventurer/scientists, hair-raising wildlife encounters and haunting landscapes—all in the tradition of his teacher, John McPhee. But Weissenbach offers a contrasting dimension unique to a writer of his era: how all this reality feels to a 20-something raised on the airless virtual world of the 4”x2” screen. The book thus carries a double warning: of a threatened external environment and an internal one, too." 

"Far and away the best outdoor adventure book I’ve read in years. It takes a dire but somewhat distant topic, climate change, and brings it to within inches of your face, so you can hear the snuffle of grizzlies and the glassy crackling as the glaciers recede. In the process, it gently nudges us to relearn the raw art of being human: to walk softly, to see sharply, to be—vitally—present."
 —Robert Moor, best-selling author of On Trails: An Exploration