A Woman In The Polar Night
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A Woman In The Polar Night
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Author : Christiane Ritter
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Release Date : 2024-02-06
A Woman In The Polar Night written by Christiane Ritter and has been published by Pushkin Press Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Travel categories.
“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime. In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to 'read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content', but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies... But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life.
A Woman In The Polar Night
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Author : Christiane Ritter
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2019-11-14
A Woman In The Polar Night written by Christiane Ritter and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Travel categories.
The rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic 'Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights' Sara Wheeler '[An] astonishing, haunting memoir' Isabella Tree In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. On arrival she is shocked to realise that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape and the lack of supplies... But after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty. This luminous classic memoir tells of her inspiring journey to freedom and fulfilment in the adventure of a lifetime.
Woman In The Polar Night
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Author : Christiane Ritter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Woman In The Polar Night written by Christiane Ritter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Polar Night
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Author : Julie Flanders
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Polar Night written by Julie Flanders and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Alaska categories.
When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan winter, Danny is content with a dead-end job investigating Fairbanks' cold cases. That all changes when a pretty blond woman goes missing on the winter solstice, and Danny stumbles upon some surprising connections between her disappearance and that of another Fairbanks woman three years earlier. Forced out of his lethargy, Danny sets out to both find the missing woman and solve his own cold case. The investigation points Danny towards Aleksei Nechayev, the handsome and charming proprietor of an old asylum turned haunted tourist attraction in the Arctic town of Coldfoot. As he tries to find a link between Nechayev and his case, Danny's instinct tells him that Nechayev is much more than what he seems. Danny has no idea that Nechayev is hiding a secret that is much more horrifying than anything he could ever have imagined. As his obsession with finding the missing women grows, Danny finds his own life in danger. And when the truth is finally revealed, the world as he knows it will never be the same.
The Spectral Arctic
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Author : Shane McCorristine
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with History categories.
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Polar Night
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Author : Mark Mahaney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-08
Polar Night written by Mark Mahaney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-08 with categories.
Mark Mahaney's Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska's northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It's an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun's absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It's hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.
Arctic Dreams
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Author : Barry Lopez
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Arctic Dreams written by Barry Lopez and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Travel categories.
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** 'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape. The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by land, sea and air. The setting of epic exploratory voyages. In crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic: the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition for centuries. 'The Arctic dreamland seen and described by a writer of rare perception and poetic descriptive power... The pages sparkle with Arctic light' Scotsman
Know The Night
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Author : Maria Mutch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Know The Night written by Maria Mutch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A transcendent memoir by poet Maria Mutch about the distances that can form between people who should be the closest of all—husband and wife, parent and child, lifelong friends and partners. Unfolding over the witching hours between midnight and 6am, this moving and meditative book takes place during the two year period in which the author's son Gabriel, who is autistic and also has Down Syndrome, did not sleep through the night. Gabriel spends much of his life as a puzzling enigma to his parents, but when he becomes unlocked by jazz music, his mother finds herself taking him into jazz clubs at all hours of the night, where he becomes a favorite patron. There is a fierce beauty in the isolation that envelops these two people as they wait out the nighttime hours, which Mutch compares to the isolation of polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. His story, interwoven here, brings insight into the profound experience of physical isolation, and creates a shared language for the experience of feeling alone. Through these three main characters—mother, son, adventuring explorer—Mutch triangulates overlapping and layered themes of solitude that enlighten and uplift one another.
The Healing
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Author : Gayl Jones
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2019-12-03
The Healing written by Gayl Jones and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Fiction categories.
A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich lyricism of the oral storytelling tradition. From the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing follows Harlan Jane Eagleton as she travels to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds, and healing bodies. But before she found her calling, Harlan had been a minor rock star’s manager and, before that, a beautician. Harlan retraces her story to the beginning, when she once had a fling with the rock star’s ex-husband and found herself infatuated with an Afro-German horse dealer. Along the way she’s somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman across eastern Africa. Harlan draws us deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale: the story of her first healing. The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan’s memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of unfiltered dialogue, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic—and unexpected—beginning.
Through The First Antarctic Night 1898 1899 A Narrative Of The Voyage Of The Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands And Over An Unknown Sea About The South Pole
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Author : Frederick Albert Cook
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2024-04-12
Through The First Antarctic Night 1898 1899 A Narrative Of The Voyage Of The Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands And Over An Unknown Sea About The South Pole written by Frederick Albert Cook and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Travel categories.
Embark on an Epic Expedition with Frederick Albert Cook's "Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899" Prepare to be transported to the icy expanse of Antarctica as you join Frederick Albert Cook on the historic voyage of the "Belgica." In his gripping narrative, "Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899," Cook recounts the harrowing journey of the expedition as they traverse newly discovered lands and brave the treacherous waters surrounding the South Pole. Experience the Thrilling Adventures of the "Belgica" Expedition Step aboard the "Belgica" and embark on a daring exploration of uncharted territories, where every moment is fraught with danger and discovery. Follow Cook and his intrepid crew as they navigate through icy waters, battling against harsh weather conditions and unknown obstacles at every turn. Through Cook's vivid descriptions and compelling storytelling, readers will find themselves immersed in the awe-inspiring beauty and unforgiving terrain of Antarctica. From encounters with exotic wildlife to breathtaking landscapes of ice and snow, every page offers a glimpse into the wonders of this remote and mysterious continent. Why "Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899" Is a Must-Read Historical Significance: Cook's account provides a valuable firsthand perspective on one of the earliest Antarctic expeditions, offering insights into the challenges and triumphs of polar exploration during the late 19th century. Captivating Narration: With its gripping storytelling and vivid imagery, "Through the First Antarctic Night" transports readers to a world of adventure and discovery, where every page brims with excitement and wonder. Exploration and Discovery: Join Cook and his crew as they uncover the mysteries of Antarctica, charting new territories and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge in their quest for exploration.Whether you're an armchair adventurer or a history buff, "Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899" offers a thrilling journey into the heart of one of the world's most remote and inhospitable regions. Don't miss your chance to experience the excitement and wonder of polar exploration through the eyes of Frederick Albert Cook.