North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the ArcticIn June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, with the long polar night stretching into darkness for months to come. With his world circumscribed by screaming blizzards and marauding polar bears and his only companion a kitten named Halifax, Simon withstands months of crushing loneliness, sudden blindness, and private demons. Trapped in a boat buried beneath the drifting snow, he struggles through the perpetual darkness toward a spiritual awakening and an understanding of the forces that conspired to bring him there. He emerges five months later a transformed man. Simon's powerful, triumphant story combines the suspense of Into Thin Air with a crystalline, lyrical prose to explore the hypnotic draw of one of earth's deepest and most dangerous wildernesses. |
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A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic Alvah Simon. Tay Bay JANUARY 1995 ZERO HOURS DAYLIGHT H EAVY WINDS HOWL off the ... sun vanished months ago , leaving this wasteland cloaked in blackness and lifesucking cold . An hour , a day , a week ...
A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic Alvah Simon. Tay Bay JANUARY 1995 ZERO HOURS DAYLIGHT H EAVY WINDS HOWL off the ... sun vanished months ago , leaving this wasteland cloaked in blackness and lifesucking cold . An hour , a day , a week ...
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... time , watching the sun and my wife , both sources of warmth and light in my life , disap- pear over the southern horizon . I have never known such silence . After a time , that stillness ... HOURS DAYLIGHT Where you NORTH TO THE NIGHT 121.
... time , watching the sun and my wife , both sources of warmth and light in my life , disap- pear over the southern horizon . I have never known such silence . After a time , that stillness ... HOURS DAYLIGHT Where you NORTH TO THE NIGHT 121.
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... hours - it could well be a few days . John threw his arms up in dis- gust . " It's over . We'll miss our flight . " Late the next day , Hemmy and a friend drove their snowmobile into camp as ... HOURS DAYLIGHT The surge 256 ALVAH SIMON.
... hours - it could well be a few days . John threw his arms up in dis- gust . " It's over . We'll miss our flight . " Late the next day , Hemmy and a friend drove their snowmobile into camp as ... HOURS DAYLIGHT The surge 256 ALVAH SIMON.
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