A Woman in the Polar Night

A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly 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 activist 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christiane Ritter
• Assisted by: Wheeler Sara (Introduction), Jane Degras (Translation), Degras Jane (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781805330899
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-089-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Pushkin Classics; Pushkin Press Classics; Pushkin Deluxe Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Expeditions: popular accounts, Arctic regions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs