A Woman in the Polar Night

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A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night

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Her unbending, positive attitude makes her life a joy to follow, and her story an inspiration to read. And suddenly I realize that civilisation is suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency because it cannot draw its strength directly from nature, eternally young and eternally true.

Only now do I grasp the real meaning and the world-transforming element in the saying: “Become as the peasants, understand the sacredness of the earth. So konnte ich mich einfach fallen lassen und mit der Protagonistin die Polarnacht durchleben und staunen. I highly recommend this German classic to anyone who enjoys reading detailed descriptions of the natural world and our tiny place within it. But mainly she adapts to life there and never wants to leave, the austere beauty and the hard work capturing her heart. It is difficult, and quite graphic – my love of polar books had to work hard to overcome that but it’s not all of the book and it is a very special book.I hadn't planned on finishing this memoir or snapping this photo when it was -17 air temp outside, but it certainly added to the experience. They are hundreds of miles from civilization and their closest neighbor is a man living in a similar hut 60 miles away. We know being out in the polar night does makes her feel frightened and alone, but we don't get much sense of Ritter's character. Most of the time I had no idea where she even was, she referred to every stopping point as 'the hut' which had me totally lost - taking me yet further out of the story.

Neuveriteľne silná osobnosť musela byt autorka a odhodlanie, humor a pokora, ktoré preukazuje počas tejto výpravy - prezimovania v loveckej chate daleko na západnom pobreží Spicberg - sú obdivuhodne. Výborne sa to čítalo, je to vtipne, pekne aj poetické, a najmä to svojou izolovanosťou od okolitého sveta pôsobí v súčasnej spoločensky únavnej dobe ako balzam.It proves, once again, that a few books written decades ago are not only relevant today but have a rare sustaining power to inspire and move us. But it is also true that one will never experience in the Arctic anything that one has not oneself brought there. There's so much lovely stuff in here - days and days without sunlight, being stuck in a shed surrounded by snow, the weird sounds in the Arctic - so it seems likes someone is speakijg right next to you when they are miles away, being awed by nature and having that realisation that the fox fur coveted back in 30s Austria actually comes from a fox. 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. This 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.

Christiane Ritter- Künstlerin, Abenteurerin, Ehefrau und Mutter, doch vor allem eine Frau, die ihrer Zeit voraus war. Yet A Woman in the Polar Night enchanted me completely, giving me shivers and taking my breath away. Aber dann ist es lustig, und vor allem geht es überhaupt nicht um Wichtigtuerei mit Gefährlichen Tödlichen Lebensgefahren, sondern darum, dass man am Polarkreis ein unkompliziertes Leben umgeben von Schönheit führen kann. well, the words that kept coming to mind as I read were things like marvellous, delightful, plucky, and smart.I am exhilarated after reading this memoir of the author's one year living in Spitsbergen Island, several hundred miles north of Norway in the Arctic. They also would stop her doing almost anything, at one point she says that they actually put her on 'house arrest'. It is a weird thought – the closest I’ve been is Iceland in early Feb, when the sun just came up a bit for a few hours, but not much at all.

I think she survived through her good humor and through discovery - the "strange illumination of one's own self" and of seeing the world anew. They break out from a tremendous height and seem to be falling directly toward me, growing brighter and clearer, in radiant lilacs, greens, and pinks, swinging and whirling around their own axis in a wild dance that sweeps over the entire sky, and then, in drifting undulating veils, they fade and vanish. Besonders schön und persönlich fand ich, dass ihrem Buch acht ihrer Aquarelle und 25 ihrer Federzeichnungen hinzugefügt wurden, die das Buch abrunden und sehr bereichert haben- immerhin war Ritter Künstlerin. One day melts into the next, and you cannot say this is the end of today and now it is tomorrow and that was yesterday. Perhaps in centuries to come men will go to the Arctic as in biblical times they withdrew to the desert, to find the truth again.Along with several trunks containing books, writing and art supplies, and other things important to her. Ritter manages to articulate all the terrible beauty and elemental power of a polar winter” – Gavin Francis. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape and the lack of supplies… But after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic’s harsh, otherworldly beauty. When her husband asks Christiane to join him for a year in Spitsbergen, Ritter imagines many days spend cooking and painting while her husband hunts artic foxes. If you've made it this far, you'll have understood how enraged this book made me - but just to clarify, I would not recommend.



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