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

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

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

by Ben Weissenbach
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Book Overview

Winner of the 2025 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA)
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Top Ten Books of 2025

Hailed as a "worthy successor" to John McPhee (Kirkus Reviews), Ben Weissenbach --a digital native with little prior wilderness experience--embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska with some of the state's most distinguished and audacious researchers.

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 in which he grew up--a land of ice, rock, and grizzlies seen by few outside a small contingent of scientists with big personalities.

There's Roman Dial, the larger-than-life ecologist with whom Ben walks and rafts a thousand miles 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 homestead, where temperatures drop to -49 degrees Fahrenheit. And there's Matt Nolan, the independent glaciologist who flies him to the largest glaciers in the American Arctic.

As these scientists teach Ben to read Alaska's warming landscape, he confronts the limits of digital life and the complexity of the world beyond his screens. He emerges from each adventure with a new perspective on our modern relationship to technology and a growing wonder for our fast-changing--ever-changing--natural world.


ISBN9781538758335
Author Ben Weissenbach
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
GenreBiography, Hobbies & interests, and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedJuly 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

By Ben Weissenbach

About Ben Weissenbach

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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