Foreword / Jimmy Carter -- Introduction / Subhankar Banerjee -- In the great country / Peter Matthiessen -- Arctic legacy / George B. Schaller -- Our geography of hope / Fran Mauer -- Visiting the birds at their summer home / David Allen Sibley -- Arctic refuge; key to saving wild America / William H. Meadows -- Clinging to an arctic homeland / Debbie S. Miller -- Wild mercy / Terry Tempest Williams