Christiane Ritter: A Woman in the Polar Night

Cover: 9781805330899 | A Woman in the Polar Night | Christiane Ritter | Taschenbuch | 224 S.

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"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 "A refreshing voice in the canon of Arctic literature. . . charms its reader with its simple candor. Readers will delight in Ritter's frank impressions and candid remarks. - The Wall Street Journal 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.

Über den Autor

Born in 1897, Christiane Ritter was an Austrian activist and author. She wrote A Woman in the Polar Night on her return to Austria from Spitsbergen in 1934. It has since become a classic of travel writing, never going out of print in German and being translated into seven other languages. Christiane Ritter died in Vienna in 2000 at the age of 103.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Europa
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Pushkin Classics
Inhalt:	224 S.
ISBN-13:	9781805330899
ISBN-10:	1805330896
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Ritter, Christiane
Übersetzung:	Degras, Jane
Hersteller:	Pushkin Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	196 x 126 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Christiane Ritter
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.01.2024
Gewicht:	0,212 kg