This title is a Major Christmas BBC2 TV tie-in. It includes over 150 specially-commissioned photographs. It is written by best-selling author with a thirst for extreme experiences and dangerous rituals. Explorer Bruce Parry takes an epic seven-month journey around the Arctic Circle (a passage of some 11,000 miles), taking in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia and Northern Europe - the last great wilderness. This full-colour illustrated book documents an important part of our world at a point of extraordinary change. Bruce tells important human stories with humour and warmth, immersing himself in the lives of the Arctic's people - fishermen, oil workers, native hunters, bush pilots, miners, fire-fighters, and scientists mapping the shrinking ice cap.
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A former Royal Marine, Bruce Parry is one of the UK's best-known TV presenters and adventurers, known particularly for the seminal BBC and Discovery Channel series' Tribe and Amazon, in which Parry was integrated into a series of indigenous tribes, immersing himself in their culture, traditions and rituals.
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By Nancy Carter
Format:Hardcover
Is Bruce Parry the nicest man alive? I think so. I think only the 'Lost Land of the Jaguar/Volcano/Tiger' team are in the same league as Bruce's passion & empathy for the natural world & the people who live so much in harmony with their surroundings. He has a very open & honest way which endears him both to viewers & any society he happens to be in. He's not an adventure thrill seeker, he genuinely just wants to meet new people & understand them better. Tackling the globe a piece at a time Bruce is now taking on the Arctic Circle. Conveying not only the impact that climate change is having on the land & peoples of this area but also how history & the modern world continue to have ripple effects that change & shape life up on the northern fringes. The first episode dealt with Siberia, not only its way of life up in the harsh North but how it is reclaiming its spiritual essence that was outlawed under Soviet rule.
Curiously the series does not run chronologically like the book does. The Siberia section is right in the middle on the Summer Solstice. The book actually starts in Greenland at the beginning of April & runs right through Canada, Siberia, Alaska & ends in Norway towards the end of October. Much of the narration from the series is in the book written in diary entries, but obviously only so much of his observations can make it onto the show so the book is like the unabridged version. Like all BBC co-publications it is beautifully produced & packed full of photographs from the series. An excellent companion guide to an excellent series. Bravo Bruce.
Curiously the series does not run chronologically like the book does. The Siberia section is right in the middle on the Summer Solstice. The book actually starts in Greenland at the beginning of April & runs right through Canada, Siberia, Alaska & ends in Norway towards the end of October. Much of the narration from the series is in the book written in diary entries, but obviously only so much of his observations can make it onto the show so the book is like the unabridged version. Like all BBC co-publications it is beautifully produced & packed full of photographs from the series. An excellent companion guide to an excellent series. Bravo Bruce.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Only got this yesterday but first impressions are "brilliant book." Photographs are superb and Bruce Parry is obviously an all round "people person" who gets on well with the people he meets in the Arctic.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series on TV and have the DVD on order.
If you are interested in the far North this book will definitely appeal to you.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series on TV and have the DVD on order.
If you are interested in the far North this book will definitely appeal to you.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Fiona Kent
Format:Hardcover
The lavish hardback is the perfect accompaniment to the BBC 2 show currently airing on a Sunday night. Saying that, it can also be thoroughly enjoyed as a standalone book.
Packed full of stunning photographs from Bruce Parry's latest expedition in the Arctic, this is a visual delight as well as being thoroughly informative and engrossing.
Bruce's endearing character and likeability that drew viewers in during Tribe and Amazon shine through in his diary extracts, describing his times in some of the toughest conditions, including Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska and Norway. Bruce describes some of the most incredible natural wonders, such as The Northern Lights, and the indigenous people he met along the way with such passion, wander and humour that you will be hard-pushed not to completely absorbed.
As well as being enlightening, the book has a more serious undertone, when Bruce highlights the changes being experienced by the people and communities visited, due to changing social pressures as well as climate change.
I've heard that Bruce is doing formal signings in London on 18th January (High St Kensington Waterstone's at 5.30pm) and 20th January (Stanford's, Covent Garden at 5.30pm)!
Packed full of stunning photographs from Bruce Parry's latest expedition in the Arctic, this is a visual delight as well as being thoroughly informative and engrossing.
Bruce's endearing character and likeability that drew viewers in during Tribe and Amazon shine through in his diary extracts, describing his times in some of the toughest conditions, including Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska and Norway. Bruce describes some of the most incredible natural wonders, such as The Northern Lights, and the indigenous people he met along the way with such passion, wander and humour that you will be hard-pushed not to completely absorbed.
As well as being enlightening, the book has a more serious undertone, when Bruce highlights the changes being experienced by the people and communities visited, due to changing social pressures as well as climate change.
I've heard that Bruce is doing formal signings in London on 18th January (High St Kensington Waterstone's at 5.30pm) and 20th January (Stanford's, Covent Garden at 5.30pm)!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
After watching the Bruce Parry series and finding out my Mum was a fan i bought her the book as a gift. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2011 by Enagem72
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining & Thought-Provoking
Am currently watching the television series and really enjoying it. I'm a fan of Bruce's previous television series that he did for Tribe and Amazon and Arctic is just as... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2011 by Pat B
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