In an unforgettable tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth.[...]
A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.[...]
The author of A Match to the Heart describes her seven-year odyssey back and forth to Greenland to explore the culture, society, and lifestyle of the polar Eskimos and to learn about the lives of others who had chosen to live in a land dominated by ice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]
This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter-for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul-and also out of the fear that our "democracy of gratification" has irreparably altered the climate.
Over the course of a ye[...]