The Magnetic North : Notes From the Arctic Circle

The New York Times - Holly Morris: Whether she's on migration with the Sami reindeer herders, interviewing scientists on the Greenland ice sheet or white-knuckling it on the highway that runs along the Alaskan pipeline, she aims for the sweet, deep spot, "to see," as Wheeler says, quoting T. S. Eliot, "beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory"—an ambition this region too infrequently receives, but sorely deserves, from a documentarian…Wheeler doesn't trade in sentiment or noble savagery…With wry humor and extensive research, Wheeler captures a swiftly transforming region with which we all have a symbiotic relationship.