My own trip to Nuuk showed me you can\u2019t just rock up and attempt to bend all that bleak, rugged terrain to your will<\/p>\n
In August 2018, I did something that JD Vance and his wife, Usha, can only dream of: I went to Greenland, and I didn\u2019t cause a national outcry against my presence. The not-causing-a-national-outcry part of that was easy. All I had to do was show up and not be a thinly veiled agent of Trumpian expansionism while pretending to care about dog sled races.<\/p>\n
The other part \u2013 going to Greenland in the first place \u2013 is harder to explain. I\u2019m not an explorer, a sailor or a climate scientist. I don\u2019t belong to any of the vanishingly few occupations with legitimate reasons to visit the Arctic Circle. I was there, inexplicably, as a literary journalist.<\/p>\n
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