Norths

Around the circumpolar world in 180 days

By: Natasha Tar Let’s say you just had a baby. Would your first thoughts be “cool, now I should plan a 180-day trip to different artist residencies in the circumpolar north in the dead of winter”? Probably not, but that’s exactly what Alison McCreesh, writer and artist of Norths, decided to do.      If you need a break from hefty novels and have a soft spot for postcards, Norths is the book for you. It’s a collection of postcards that chronicle McCreesh’s adventures through seven of the world’s eight northernmost countries; according to her intro, she “just couldn’t work…

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