This Cold Heaven
Subtitle: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Publisher: Vintage
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780679758525
Subjects: Travel - General; Rasmussen, Knud,; Essays & Travelogues; Travel; Polar Regions; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Ehrlich, Gretel; 1879-1933; Description and travel; Greenland
Description: In this travelogue, Ehrlich combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. She 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. -- Publisher's description.