About BC Books Online
BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
Our site features print books and ebooks - both new releases and backlist titles - all of which are available to order through regular trade channels. Browse our subject categories to find books of interest or create and export lists by category to cross-reference with your library's current collection.
A quick tip: When reviewing the "Browse by Category" listings, please note that these are based on standardized BISAC Subject Codes supplied by the books' publishers. You will find additional selections, grouped by theme or region, in our "BC Reading Lists."
Description
In this extraordinary adventure, a reluctant visitor to the Arctic thrives in the awesome and unforgiving landscape.
In 1933 Christiane Ritter reluctantly followed her husband to Spitsbergen, an Arctic island north of Norway. For her, "the Arctic was just another word for freezing and forsaken solitude." The story that follows is compelling, the writing matter-of-fact yet magical.
Editorial Reviews
A Woman in the Polar Night, Ritter's eloquent account of her experiences while overwintering with him in Grahuken on Wijdefjorden in the mid-1930s, also has the form of a journal . . . it is written mainly in a continual present tense. This allows the reader to follow her evolving perspective on life in the Far North—as well as on European culture viewed from a distance that gradually becomes mental as well as geographical. —Polar Research
Frau Ritter lived on seal and bear meat, survived raging blizzards, solitude, and the long winter night. In the end, she discovered the typical Arctic philosophy . . . a little like the sensation just before freezing . . . that nothing really matters very much. An unpretentious but arresting book about life south of nowhere. —Time Magazine
