This Cold Heaven - Seven Seasons in Greenland (Paperback, Vintage Books ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Gretel Ehrlich
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	377
Edition:	Vintage Books ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-75852-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > History of other lands Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
LSN:	0-679-75852-6
Barcode:	9780679758525

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