A Woman in the Polar Night

A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.

About the author

Born in 1897, Christiane Ritter was an Austrian artist and author. She wrote A Woman in the Polar Night on 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.

Summary

A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.

Foreword

A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic

Product details

• Authors: Christiane Ritter
• Assisted by: Wheeler Sara (Introduction), Degras Jane (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781782275640
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-564-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Expeditions: popular accounts, Arctic regions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs