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NONFICTION The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate ChangeOn October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Soon the sun would set for months. The remaining open ocean around the boat would ice over, and three million square miles of liquid would turn solid in the span of a few short weeks.
If all of this is starting to sound a bit wonky, that’s because The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time is written by an atmospheric scientist rather than a nature essayist like Barry Lopez or a climate novelist like Ashley Shelby, whose 2017 book South Pole Station explores the way community is forged by isolation and ice. There are no characters and no conversations between those people he resides alongside. The book reads more like a ship log than it does a piece of literary reportage.
Omission plagues the polar canon, and this book is no exception. Women rarely appear, let alone speak; Indigenous peoples serve as set pieces as opposed to residents with invaluable knowledge that interlopers lack; and those whose maintenance work makes these complex logistical endeavors possible—in the form of cooking, cleaning and caring for the ship and its expedition members—lurk in the subtext, offstage.
The most surprising moment in The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time comes about two thirds of the way through, when the pandemic threatens to end the mission early. MOSAiC is an inherently international collaboration, with 20 nations participating, but as borders close and the icebreakers that were supposed to support the ship are sent home, the Polarstern just keeps drifting.
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