A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

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.

Christiane Ritter was an Austrian painter. She wrote A Woman in the Polar Night after her return to Austria in 1934 and the original German edition is still in print.

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ISBN 13	9781602231009
ISBN 10	1602231001
Title	A Woman in the Polar Night
Author	Christiane Ritter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Alaska Press
Year published	2010-07-15
Number of pages	215
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.