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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.
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2003
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- Titolo
- This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Editore
- Vintage
- Pubblicato
- 2003
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0679758526
- ISBN13
- 9780679758525
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Mappe e viaggi, Storie vere, Biografie, Natura, Viaggi, Avventura, Autobiografie e memorie, Antropologia
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.