Latitude North Hardcover – 16 Nov. 2015

This book charts a lifelong fascination with the geographic north, told with affection, rare elegance, and a keen eye for detail. On this journey to the north (and back in time), Moseley recreates a lost world full of sensory surprises and haunting observations.

Interesting book.

I found Latitude North a great read, very enjoyable, it was very interesting to learn the history of the region and to experience the Moseley family travels within the region and their love-affair for this region. I alway enjoy Charles Moseley style of writing, great read. I highly recommend!

Brilliantly observed and compellingly told, this memorial of the author's love for northern landscapes and their seas left me wishing for more. At times exciting, often touching, and always engrossing, Charles Moseley's tales are the consummately woven gift of a polymath, albeit one who wears his erudition lightly.This is a very special book.Jeanne Lembert / Francesca Waters

Grippingly and vividly written, a unique blend of travelogue and scholarship and a moving personal story. Not many trawler hands write up their memoirs, and even fewer quote the Norse sagas while doing so. Moseley has detailed technical knowledge of ship-building, botany, geology, the history of medieval Greenland, fish-gutting, the behaviour of deep-frozen Mars bars and just about everything else. Want to know what it's like to haul sledges across the polar icecap – and get lost? This is the book for you. In fact, it's not so much a book - more a TV series painted in words.

This is an entertaining, unusual and very informative book, which moves easily from personal narrative to historical explanations. Hard to put down once you've started!

We live in a society which places great store by categorising things into ever more prescriptive and limited 'genres' - so how refreshing to read this wonderful book. Charles Moseley's work does not just defy the limitations of being corralled into a specific genre - it transcends those limitations.Reading it took me on many concurrent journeys. I was an interested observer of his stories and anecdotes; I was engaged by his personal reminiscences which engendered in me a sense of 'unearned intimacy', of being generously invited into a private world of family and friendship; I was stimulated into considering uncomfortable issues of global significance; I was led through doors into glimpses of ancient literature, lore, symbolism and significance; and I was unexpectedly, and frequently, moved to tears by the beauty of the writing, by the poignancy of the descriptions of the landscape and life of the Arctic world, by the bittersweet melding of the celebration of wonders therein and their fragility.But above all, in his short final chapter, Charles Moseley has written a clarion call to us all - to undertake our own inner journey. Those two pages were, for me, profoundly inspiring and humbling, written as they appear to be with such modest authority that I wept, and was glad, and was changed from having read them.Latitude North is a stunning book, to be read and re-read.