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Ritter, Christiane

 
9781805330899: A Woman in the Polar Night
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ISBN 10 : 1805330896 ISBN 13 : 9781805330899
Editeur : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024

Synopsis

A Woman In The Polar Night, 9781805330899

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.

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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Éditeur
Pushkin Press Classics
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1805330896
ISBN 13 
9781805330899
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781782275640: A Woman in the Polar Night

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1782275649 ISBN 13 :  9781782275640
Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2019
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