Ben Weissenbach is a young writer from California who recently spent a lot of time adventuring through cold and isolated parts of Alaska. His book North to the Future takes a look at migrating forests, melting glaciers, and thawing permafrost to examine the effects of climate change in a place where the climate has changed the most — in Alaska the average temperature has risen more than twice as fast as the global average since about 1970.
It’s also about a “digital native” of the twenty-first century learning how to look at the real world — a sort of analog coming-of-age — and it just won a National Outdoor Book Award.
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North to the Future, by Ben Weissenbach
Coming into the Country, by John McPhee
