In an unforgettable tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich
travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. Greenland is
the largest island on earth. All but five percent of it is covered
by a vast ice sheet, an enduring remnant of the last ice age.
Despite a uniquely hostile environment, it has been inhabited
continuously for thousands of years. Greenlanders retain many of
their traditional practices. Some still hunt on sleds made from
whale and caribou with packs of dogs; others fashion harpoons from
Narwhal tusks; entranced shamans make soul fights under the ice.
The modern population lives on the edge of a stone- and ice-age
world and has reached a unique understanding of it. Ehrlich mixes
stories of European anthropologists who have recorded the ways of
the Inuit, with artists who have lived briefly on Greenland's
fringe in order to try to capture its extraordinary pure light. She
travels across this unearthly landscape in the company of men and
women who have a deep bond with it, and with them she discovers the
realm of the Great Dark, ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo
nomads. She learns about hunting and endurance, inuit languages,
legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful
landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and
mysterious properties. St Brendan, the sixth century Irish monk,
described one of its huge glaciers as 'a floating crystal castle
the colour of a silver veil, yet hard as marble and the sea around
it as smooth as glass and white as milk.' It has lost none of its
power to enthral.
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