Tracing the footsteps of pioneering Arctic explorer and Californian Louise Arner Boyd led author, journalist, and Alta Journal contributor Julia Flynn Siler to the top of the world. At the Arctic Circle, aboard a three-masted sailing ship not unlike the ones Boyd chartered, Siler connected the dots between the dwindling polar bear population of the Arctic and the extreme weather we’re now experiencing in the West owing to climate change. She joins Alta Live to expand on her latest for Alta, “Shivering at the Top of the World”; regale us with stories of Boyd’s adventurous life; and share her reflections on an extraordinary journey of discovery.
About the guest:
Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times–bestselling author and journalist. Her most recent book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for a California Book Award. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure and The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist, Siler is a longtime contributor to and former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on PBS, the BBC, CNBC, and CNN. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two sons.•
