A Woman in the Polar Night
Authors: Christiane Ritter
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-10 - Publisher: Greystone Books
In this extraordinary adventure, a reluctant visitor to the Arctic thrives in the awesome and unforgiving landscape. In 1933, Christiane Ritter, a painter from Austria, travelled to Spitsbergen, an Arctic island north of Norway, to be with her husband. He had been taking part in a scientific expedition and stayed