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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Vintage Books)
by Ehrlich, Gretel
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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.
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
- Jan 7, 2003 Pub Date:
- 0679758526 ISBN-10:
- 9780679758525 ISBN-13:
- 377.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 1 in * 5.19 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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