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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gretel EhrlichPublish date:2003-01-07Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679758525ISBN-10:679758526UPC:9780679758525Book Category:Travel, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Polar Regions, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGE0Z9MX3
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679758525ISBN-10:679758526UPC:9780679758525Book Category:Travel, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Polar Regions, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGE0Z9MX3
Gretel Ehrlich is the author of A Match to the Heart, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She divides her time between California and Wyoming.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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