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This cold heaven : seven seasons in Greenland / Gretel Ehrlich.
LIBRA - Special G743 .E47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrlich, Gretel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ehrlich, Gretel--Travel--Greenland.
- Ehrlich, Gretel.
- Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933.
- Travel.
- Greenland--Description and travel.
- Greenland.
- Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933--Travel--Greenland.
- Rasmussen, Knud.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Darkness Visible: Uummannaq, Greenland, 1995
- Elisabeth, 1995
- The Arctic Station, 1910-1917
- The Second Thule Expedition Begins, 1917
- The Homeward Journey, 1917
- N by E: Illorsuit, July 1996
- The Fifth Thule Expedition Begins, 1921
- The Time Between Two Winters, 1922
- Qaanaaq, 1997
- The Fifth Thule Expedition, 1923
- New Ice, 1923-1924
- The Mackenzie Delta, 1924
- Alaska, 1924
- The Line That Ties Us: Leaving Qaanaaq, 1998
- Winter to Spring, 1998
- Aliberti's Ride, 1998
- Palo's Wedding, 1998
- Nanuq: The Polar Bear, 1999
- Spring to Summer: Qaanaaq, 1999
- Summer: Qaanaaq, 1999
- Autumn, 1999.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0679758526
- 9780679758525
- OCLC:
- 51926415
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