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A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night


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"Conjures the rasp of the skin runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights..." Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica"Ritter manages to articulate all the terrible beauty and elemental power of a polar winter" Gavin Francis, author of Empire AntarcticaIn 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content", but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies...

But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life. This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.


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Autor Christiane Ritter
Vydavateľ Pushkin Press
Jazyk anglický
VäzbaPaperback / softback
Počet strán224
Formát198 x 131 x 15
Hmotnosť212
EAN9781782275640
Rok vydania2019
Edícia Súčasná beletria

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Christiane Ritter

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