Gretel Ehrlich travels across the largest island on Earth, in the company of men and women who have a deep bond with it. She discovers the realm of the great dark, ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo nomads.
Some sheep farmers use the newest machinery to produce plastic-wrapped, round hales. Other farmers make hay the traditional way. Qassiarsuk on a Sunday evening. Older Greenlanders, like the woman with her grandson, believe children are ...
Tilman¿s first troublesome voyage aboard her to West Greenland in 1973 completes this collection.
In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth.
Bridget Thorsdottir is a seventeen-year-old girl living during the waning days of the Norse colony in Greenland in the year 1501.
Now at last we feel sure of being able to complete the long and toilsome journey home – it is not far now to the northern depot, and there are no less than four more depots between there and Danmarks Havn, Our troubles are over now ...
Like the author of the book, much of our knowledge of the Earth comes from Greenland. Therefore, the book is also a declaration of love for Greenland, which has been the driving force in Minik Rosing's geological research.
Autobiography of a leading Arctic explorer