Kieran Mulvaney

I'm continuing work on my newest book, The Ice Wanderer: A Natural and Unnatural History of Polar Bears, slated for publication by Houghton Mifflin (and by Hutchinson in the United Kingdom) in Spring 2010. I recently returned from a visit to Churchill, Manitoba, "the polar bear capital of the world", as research for the book and for an upcoming article in the Washington Post Magazine. Check in with my blog for updates on the book's progress, among other things.

For those who may be wondering who I am and what's in this site:

I am an author who has written several books and over 200 magazine articles. I've traveled to or worked in about twenty countries, and I've lived in four of them -- Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States. I've walked on all seven continents and sailed on the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. I've been a leader on voyages to confront Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, Norwegian whalers in the Arctic, and French driftnet fleets in the North Atlantic.

Some of my writing credits:

I'm the editor of Ocean Update, a monthly newsletter published by SeaWeb and distributed to environment and science journalists and other interested parties across the nation and around the world. I've written articles on science and environment issues for such publications as The (London) Guardian, The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, New Scientist, New Internationalist, BBC Wildlife and E Magazine, and I've been a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel Online.

I contributed chapters to the books Beyond the Bars: The Zoo Dilemma (1987), Conservation of Whales and Dolphins: Science and Practice (1996), Whale Watching (1999), Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Assessment (2000), The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World (2003), and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change (2004), and wrote the afterword for a new edition of the classic polar adventure by Admiral Richard Byrd, Alone (2003).

I wrote the main text for the Greenpeace Book of Dolphins (1990), wrote the text for Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line (1996), and I'm the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions, (Island Press, 2001) and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling (Island Press, 2003).

To check out some of my publications, click on the link at the top of the page or check out the individual titles to the right. Visit the newsletter page to sign up for news, views, and updates. To read the full list of publications and other credits, you can view my resumé. And if you're burning to learn more about Kieran the person, click on "Biography."