For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. Ehrlich unlocks the secrets of this severe land and those who live there; a hardy people who still travel by dogsled and kayak and prefer the mystical four months a year of endless darkness to the gentler summers without night. She discovers the twenty-three words the Inuit have for ice, befriends a polar bear hunter, and comes to agree with the great Danish-Inuit explorer Knud Rasmussen that “all true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of man, in great solitudes.” This Cold Heaven is at once a thrilling adventure story and a meditation on the clarity of life at the extreme edge of the world.
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
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Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679758525
Details:
Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
Brand: Vintage
Color: Silver
Edition: Vintage Books
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 377
Release Date: 07-01-2003
Part Number: 9780679758525
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780679758525
