This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Condition: SECONDHAND
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She learns about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages, legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and mysterious properties. St Brendan, the sixth century Irish monk, described one of its huge glaciers as "a floating crystal castle the colour of a silver veil, yet hard as marble and the sea around it as smooth as glass and white as milk". This book shows that it has lost none of its power to enthral.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Format: Hardback, 400 pages, 159mm x 240mm, 716 g
Published: 2002, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Travel Writing
Description
She learns about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages, legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and mysterious properties. St Brendan, the sixth century Irish monk, described one of its huge glaciers as "a floating crystal castle the colour of a silver veil, yet hard as marble and the sea around it as smooth as glass and white as milk". This book shows that it has lost none of its power to enthral.
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland