Gretel Ehrlich
Birth date: January 21, 1946
Gretel Ehrlich's Books
bookshelves: hardback, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, published-2001, under-500-ratings, travel, dip-in-now-and-again, winter-20152016, snow-times, arctic, greenland, bloat, send-for-an-editor, shamanism, nonfiction, newtome-author, nature, adventure, environmental-issues, history, cult-yah, biograp...
To paraphrase a sentence in the author’s introduction, if anyone had told me I’d be reading about soil, much less be fascinated and excited about it, I’d have said they were crazy, but I was so engrossed in this lively, hopeful book that I read it all in one day. There is a lot of science, but it’s...
Beautifully written, poetic prose from an author who is completely in love with Greenland and the arctic
Small collection of essays about a mountain climbing pilgrimage to China in the mid-90s. Ehrlich finds it a depressing place - until she gets to Lijiang and meets musicians who are trying to preserve some of the heritage that has been shattered by the Cultural Revolution.
Impersonal, fragmented, context-free writing (I can’t bring myself to call it narrative) overrun by egregiously bad metaphors and similes. I don’t know how something can feel so self-indulgent and still give you no indication who the author is. Thankfully, there were brief moments that managed to sp...
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