Cold Latitudes

Across these essays, Rosemary McGuire turns her attention to the far north and far south, offering compact sketches of the land, the people who live on it, and the animals that share it. Her subjects are the circumpolar regions, where life continues in forms many readers may never have encountered up close.

McGuire presents the Arctic and Antarctic as places full of activity and distinct ways of living, all increasingly exposed to a changing climate. Rather than working through the technical vocabulary of environmental science, she brings a personal, human perspective to a conversation that often feels remote. Her observations are the collection's main draw.

Each essay also moves like a story, with its pace shaped by the setting it describes. Together the pieces will appeal to readers interested in polar life and in how a warming world is reaching the people and animals who depend on these landscapes.