Neil Shea

Coming December 2, 2025. Pre-order here.

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Join me at the Frostlines Launch event:

@Powerhouse Books, Brooklyn
12.2.25

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praise for Frostlines

“Shea sketches moving scenes in lyrical prose that emphasizes the interconnectedness of living things. Readers will be transported.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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“In prose that shines with insight and astute observation, the intersecting stories of people, animals, and the land come to vivid life in these pages. Shea's brilliant writing offers clear-eyed and respectful meditations on the meanings of community and belonging in times of upheaval, in the past, present, and future.”

— David George Haskell, biologist and two-time Pulitzer-finalist author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen.

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“Lush and heartbreaking, Frostlines lays the Arctic bare to reveal a place of life, beauty, and ancient interdependencies. Neil Shea is both a careful observer and a gifted writer, weaving a narrative steeped in loss, wonder, and warning.”

— Jonathan C. Slaght, author of Tigers Between Empires and Owls of the Eastern Ice

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"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."

— Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again and the forthcoming A Better World is Possible

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“With evocative and time-bending writing, Neil Shea honors the historic agency of animals and peoples too often idealized and ‘managed.’ As climate chaos warms his beloved Arctic faster than anywhere else on earth, Shea reminds us that we do not have to destroy the place where people still respect the rhythms of animals and their miraculous migrations.”

— Trish O’Kane, author of Birding to Change the World

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"Frostlines transports readers to far-flung regions of the Arctic, where they encounter majestic wolves and elusive caribou. Neil Shea’s captivating prose reveals the Arctic’s extraordinary diversity and illuminates the ecological, social, and cultural consequences of a changing climate in one of the world’s most important—and least understood—regions.”

— Amanda Bellows, author of The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

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'Magnificent and moving. Shea writes with the magic of an aurora illuminating how life is rapidly changing across the cold expanses of the Arctic, one of the most fascinating but misunderstood expanses of the Earth. 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'

— Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh paleontologist and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

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“His writing is both poetic and practical, conveying the sweeping scale of his adventures and the deeply personal experiences of the people who invited him into their lives … An enlightening, inspiring read.”

— Linda M. Castellito, BookPage

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“Shea’s observations are striking and stirring. His book does triple duty as a travel narrative, natural history title, and tale of societal adaptation to a changing environment.”

— Catherine Lantz, Library Journal

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“ 'Frostlines by Neil Shea is a 'tour de force'. This book is superbly geographical; it is enchanting and fascinating, full of wonder and wildlife. In each region, Shea creates a deep and meaningful 'sense of place'. His knowledge of the complex connections between people and ice, community and wildlife, nature and cold is remarkable.”

— Annie Worsley, author of Windswept