A review by schopflin
The Explorer's Daughter: A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood by Kari Herbert

medium-paced

3.5

This isn't a beautifully-written book, but it's an honest testimony to the author's experience. She captures both the lives of the Polar inhabitants and also her own reactions, wishing they conformed to her childhood memories and her fears for their future. I learned a lot, including about a 1957 nuclear accident, and it's worth remembering that these people noticed ice thinning decades before climate change was accepted as real. 
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