North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska by Weissenbach, Ben
North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska by Weissenbach, Ben

North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska

Ben Weissenbach--an L.A. native with little prior wilderness experience--treks through the Alaskan tundra with a series of...
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SKU: 9781538758335
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Author: Ben Weissenbach
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Language: English
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North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska by Weissenbach, Ben

North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska

$77.66
North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska by Weissenbach, Ben

North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska

$77.66
Author: Ben Weissenbach
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Ben Weissenbach--an L.A. native with little prior wilderness experience--treks through the Alaskan tundra with a series of eccentric environmental scientists, and returns with a new perspective on technology and a revitalized sense of wonder for the natural world.

At the age of twenty, college student Ben Weissenbach went north to Arctic Alaska armed with little more than inspiration from his literary heroes and a growing interest in climate change. What met him there was a world utterly unlike the 21st century Los Angeles he grew up in--a wild land seen by few outside a small contingent of scientists with big personalities.

There's Roman Dial, the larger-than-life ecologist who leads Ben on a six week trek across Alaska's Brooks Range. There's Kenji Yoshikawa, the reindeer-herding permafrost expert who leaves Ben alone for eleven days to care for his off-grid cabin, where temperatures drop to -49 degrees Fahrenheit. And there's Matt Nolan, the independent glaciologist who flies Ben to the largest glaciers in the American Arctic.

As these scientists teach him to read the changing Alaskan landscape, Ben confronts the limits of digital life, and the complexity of the world beyond his screens. He emerges from each wilderness excursion with a new perspective on our modern relationship to technology--and a growing wonder for our natural world.




Author: Ben Weissenbach
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9781538758335

About the Author
Ben Weissenbach is a writer from Los Angeles. He studied under John McPhee at Princeton University and was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Polar Studies. His work has appeared in the L.A. Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Smithsonian, among other publications.
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