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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