The Future History of the Arctic

Explores and greatly extends the issues ... insightful analysis

Times Literary Supplement

Commended for [its] crisp, easily digestible prose...clarity...avoidance of sentimentality or over-obsessive attention to detail

Robin McKie, The Observer

This engrossing book will fascinate would-be explorers, foreign policy buffs and all those who care about our global environment. Charles Emmerson shows why the world's ice cap is where much of our world's future history will be written

Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs

Deeply insightful... His account is always clear-headed and elegant, weaving an extraordinary range of subjects into a compelling narrative

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, author of A Blueprint for a Safter Planet

As reviving as a blast of polar air, bringing the Arctic into wonderfully clear focus; one of the most impressive accounts of the contemporary Arctic I've read

Joanna Kavenna, Spectator

Required reading for anyone who wants to know more about this increasingly important region

Sunday Business Post

An expert on geopolitics, he writes with insight and authority

Independent on Sunday

An excellent primer to the economic issues of a region so recently and rudely thrust into the geopolitical limelight

Sara Wheeler, Financial Times

It's rare to find books that treat [the Arctic] as something other than a chilly adventure playground or an excuse for reams of purple prose. Thank goodness, then, for Charles Emmerson... Ruthlessly efficient

Scotland on Sunday