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A woman in the polar night / Christiane Ritter ; translated from the German by Jane Degras ; with a foreword by Sara Wheeler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ritter, Christiane, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Frau erlebt die Polarnacht. English.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Travel.
- Ritter, Christiane.
- Ritter, Christiane--Travel--Norway--Spitsbergen Island.
- Spitsbergen Island (Norway)--Description and travel.
- Spitsbergen Island (Norway).
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Woman in the polar night : classic memoir of a year in the Arctic wilderness
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- 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 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, battling the elements every day, just to survive. This luminous classic memoir tells the inspiring tale of a woman who found freedom and fulfilment in the adventure of a lifetime.
- Notes:
- First published as: Eine Frau erlebt die Polarnacht in 1938.
- First published by Pushkin Press in 2019.
- ISBN:
- 1805330896
- 9781805330899
- OCLC:
- 1104315671
- Publisher Number:
- 90102099575
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