Ellesmere
Ice, Isolation, and Other Natural Disasters
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Ellesmere: Ice, Isolation, and Other Natural Disasters is a darkly witty, brutally honest, and unexpectedly human portrait of one of the most extreme and overlooked places on Earth. Sitting at the top of Canada and the bottom of most travel itineraries, Ellesmere Island is where glaciers, madness, muskoxen, and Cold War leftovers coexist in frigid harmony. This is not your average travelogue or climate diatribe – it’s an unapologetically strange love letter to a place that doesn’t care if you love it back.
From ancient rock formations that remember a time before fish had bones to modern communities that survive with satellite dishes and courage, this book guides readers through Ellesmere’s geologic tantrums, forgotten explorers, relocated families, sovereign stand-offs, and scientific obsessions. It’s a story of ice that breathes, silence that screams, and people who – for reasons no sane person quite understands – choose to live there.
Told in a voice that blends history, science, mythology, and just the right dose of black humor, Ellesmere isn’t here to inspire you – it’s here to challenge your sense of what’s humanly possible at the edge of nothing. Whether you're a polar enthusiast, armchair adventurer, or someone who just enjoys reading about people colder than you’ll ever be, this book offers a chillingly insightful, surprisingly hilarious journey into the very top of the world.
Includes a timeline of disasters, survival tips you’ll never use, an absurd Island IQ Test, and enough reasons to both visit and never, ever go.