This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841157238 (1841157236)
Publish date: February 3rd 2003
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Travelogue,
Book Club,
Environment,
Nature,
Culture,
Anthropology
Beautifully written, poetic prose from an author who is completely in love with Greenland and the arctic
Greenland. She doesn't live in Greenland, but clearly has spent considerable time there over many years, and eaten a great deal of raw seal while crouched in the lee of a glacier, which is good enough for me.Ehrlich's account of her multiple trips to Greenland is a bit like hallucinatory/incantatory...