I must be brutally honest with the readers of this review: when I first laid my eyes on this volume with the simple title The new Arctic I was not utterly impressed. And I can tell you the reason why this is the case. First, the book aligns itself with many other anthologies on Arctic change that I have reviewed over the last few years. Second, the Introduction by one of the editors, Birgitta Evengård, unsurprisingly clarifies that the book brings together ‘a variety of Arctic scholars, each with their own scientific background, approach, and understanding of the Arctic, and with their views on what drives change, why, and how, in an effort to create composite picture where insights from different disciplines can be intertwined and woven together’(page 3). So far so good and certainly nothing groundbreaking. Upon a closer look, however, one element comes to the fore that indeed make this volume stand out: while confined to merely 350 pages, the book contains 24 chapters, all written by wellknown and not-so-well-known experts of the Arctic. And one will immediately notice the truly inter-and cross-disciplinarily of this volume, tackling Arctic change from a multitude of angles.

As can be expected by the vigilant reader of this review, a short review like this does not allow for a summary and evaluation of each single chapter, so some degree of cherry-picking as well as broader summarising of the book is necessary. Thus, let us take a step back and take into consideration Evengård’s introductory sentence cited above and the range of topics, or snapshots thereof, covered in this volume: narratives about Greenland, reindeer husbandry in Sweden, fleeting glaciers of the Arctic, the Arctic carbon cycle, the Arctic in fiction, human development and tourism in the Arctic, the ‘race’for resources, circumpolar health, infectious diseases in the Arctic, or the emerging Arctic humanities. Given the volume’s twenty-four chapters, the list goes on.