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This Cold Heaven

By Gretel Ehrlich

This Cold Heaven

By Gretel Ehrlich

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
402
Release Date:
2003-01-07
Publication Date:
2003-01-07
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679758526
ISBN13:
9780679758525
Weight:
501 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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