Neil Shea Frostlines review and information travel stories and book about an epic exploration of the transforming Arctic. Picador will publish the Neil Shea debut, on February 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Neil Shea Frostlines reviews
- “Magnificent and moving . . . This stunning book—part travelogue, part history, part popular science—will give you a new appreciation for a place, and its people, and how they together are confronting the upheaval of the modern world.” (
- “From wolves and whales to weaponized borders, Neil Shea cinches a singular storyline across the Arctic cap of our rapidly changing planet, bearing witness to loss and conflict while holding tight to wonder and awe.” (
Frostlines
- Author: Neal Shea (United States)
- Book type: Arctic travel stories
- Publisher: Picador
- To be released: February 12, 2026
- Length: 240 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
- Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Blurb of the Neal Shea travel book about the Arctic
The Arctic was once a place seemingly frozen in time. Now, while the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the herds of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, there is a new Arctic emerging.
National Geographic writer Neil Shea begins his journey with the wolves of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, and travels among the Indigenous Netsilingmiut and Tlicho peoples of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In the Barren Lands, perched on an esker, he watches bears, or Big Men. In Alaska he tracks the patterns of caribou, now shifting after thousands of years of predictability, and in the European Arctic he explores the new Cold War that is rising between Russia, China, Europe, and the United States over who controls the pole, and who will reap its riches as the ice melts.
Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of crisis, and a journey along the threshold of this stunning and sometimes frightening world. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many – all linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and pure, sparkling light.
Neil Shea is an American travel journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has written more than fifteen years for National Geographic, reporting around the world at the intersections of conflict, climate science and cultural change. He’s a co-creator of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast ‘Unfinished: Deep South’, and he also writes for film and television, scripted and documentary. Frostlines is his first book.
