{"product_id":"this-cold-heaven-seven-seasons-in-greenland-vintage-books","title":"This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Vintage Books)","description":"\u003cb\u003eGreenland lies at the heart of Gretel Ehrlich's decade-long fascination with landscape, culture, and survival. \u003ci\u003eThis Cold Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e weaves travel, history, and cultural anthropology to bring the island's people, terrain, and elemental beauty vividly to life, revealing an Arctic world rarely seen from within. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thrilling. . . . A stunning portrait of a people and the landscape that shaped them.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEhrlich 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 Rasmussen that \"all true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of man, in great solitudes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Cold Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a thrilling adventure story and a meditation on the clarity of life at the extreme edge of the world.","brand":"Gretel Ehrlich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47273705308396,"sku":"9780679758525","price":23.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780679758525.jpg?v=1770140767","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/this-cold-heaven-seven-seasons-in-greenland-vintage-books","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}