A journey across the world's last great wilderness, with bruce parry'. '.strtoupper('t')he arctic is on the point of enormous, irreversible change'. '.strtoupper('t')he effects of global warming are magnified in this area, as the sea ice is melting, new land is appearing and with it, fresh boundaries are being drawn'. '.strtoupper('i')ndigenous ways of life that have remained virtually unchanged for millennia will cease within our lifetimes – but for others, the untold riches of the oil, gas and minerals slowly being revealed under the polar ice cap promise countless opportunities'. '.strtoupper('o')ver the course of one summer, bruce parry immersed himself in the lives of the arctic’s people'. '.strtoupper('f')rom the fishermen in the bering sea, to oil workers tapping the vast wealth of the arctic reserve, native hunters desperately clinging on to the last breath of their culture, bush pilots, miners, fire fighters and scientists mapping the ever shrinking ice cap'. '.strtoupper('