This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland

Name: This Cold Heaven Seven Seasons in Greenland
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ISBN: 9780679758525

ISBN-10: 0679758526

ISBN-13: 9780679758525

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gretel Ehrlich

List price: $18.95

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Gretel Ehrlich is the author of "A Match to the Heart" among other works of nonfiction, fiction & poetry. She divides her time between California & Wyoming.