{"product_id":"a-woman-in-the-polar-night-9781805330899","title":"A Woman in the Polar Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.\" -- Maggie Shipstead, author of \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA rediscovered classic memoir\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003ethe mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A refreshing voice in the canon of Arctic literature. . . charms its reader with its simple candor. Readers will delight in Ritter's frank impressions and candid remarks. - \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1897, \u003cb\u003eChristiane Ritter \u003c\/b\u003ewas an Austrian activist and author. She wrote \u003ci\u003eA Woman in the Polar Night \u003c\/i\u003eon her return to Austria from Spitsbergen in 1934. It has since become a classic of travel writing, never going out of print in German and being translated into seven other languages. Christiane Ritter died in Vienna in 2000 at the age of 103.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601141109010,"sku":"9781805330899","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f740161-ad31-4870-b92d-c621b96b7c06.jpg?v=1732221576","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-woman-in-the-polar-night-9781805330899","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}