EAN: 9781805330899

A WOMAN IN THE POLAR NIGHT - CHRISTIANE RITTER ...

"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.

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