A woman in the polar night
(2024, original release: 2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/RITTER,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024
DESCRIPTION
216 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781805330899, 1805330896, 9781805330899
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First published as: Eine Frau erlebt die Polarnacht in 1938
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 realise 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. This luminous classic memoir tells the inspiring tale of a woman who found freedom and fulfilment in the adventure of a lifetime
First published by Pushkin Press in 2019