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The Eskimo and The Oil Man: The Battle at the Top of the World for America’s Future

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The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment in addition to the region’s traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may turn into the next Panama Canal, the next Arabian Peninsula-places on the planet that remain reasonably unknown in one century and turn into pivotal in the next. Now Shell oil plans to sink exploratory wells in the pristine waters off the North Slope of Alaska-a site that the company believes comprises three times as much oil as the Gulf of Mexico.
THE ESKIMO AND THE OIL MAN tells this story through the eyes of two men, one an IƱupiat Eskimo leader on Alaska’s North Slope, the other the head of Shell Oil’s Alaska venture. Their saga is set against the background of an undersea land rush in the Arctic, with Russian bombers appearing off Alaska’s coast, and rapid changes in ice that put millions of sea mammals at risk. The men’s decisions will have an effect on the day-to-day lives of all Americans, in their cities and towns and also in their pocketbooks. The story begins as a fight and ends with a surprise.
In the spirit of Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, bestselling creator Bob Reiss traveled in The us’s High North over three years and spent time with scientists, diplomats, military planners, Eskimo whale hunters and officials at the highest levels of the government. He traveled to remote villages and sailed on a US icebreaker.
THE ESKIMO AND THE OIL MAN reflects the issues dividing each and every American community wrestling with the balance between energy use and environmental protection, our love of cheap gas and the romance of pristine wilderness.

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