Caroline Van Hemert recounts an epic North American journey in her memoir 'The Sun Is a Compass.' But it's a lot ... river that she recounts in the book’s opening. Van Hemert is candid about ...

Witnessing the caribou crossing was the reward for enduring. The Sun Is a Compass won the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition Adventure Travel Award. Van Hemert sets the context of her personal ...

In undertaking an epic trek from the Pacific Northwest to the Alaskan Arctic, Van Hemert, a wildlife biologist, and her husband encountered both the grandeur and danger of some of the planet’s ...