Download or read book A Woman in the Polar Night written by Christiane Ritter and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.