{"product_id":"this-cold-heaven-seven-seasons-in-greenland-9780679758525","title":"This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland","description":"For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In \u003cb\u003eThis Cold Heaven\u003c\/b\u003e she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. \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.\" \u003cb\u003eThis Cold Heaven\u003c\/b\u003e is at once a thrilling adventure story and a meditation on the clarity of life at the extreme edge of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGretel Ehrlich is the author of \u003cb\u003eA Match to the Heart\u003c\/b\u003e, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She divides her time between California and Wyoming.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543891972370,"sku":"9780679758525","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f89cb121-b8d3-41cc-9cde-18e1ad04578a.jpg?v=1731515959","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-cold-heaven-seven-seasons-in-greenland-9780679758525","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}