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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... asked why , they explained that , if it is left to melt , the salt will leach out in two to three days , leaving the water potable . They introduced themselves . Jens , the owner and charter cap- tain , was the bantam rooster type ...
... asked why , they explained that , if it is left to melt , the salt will leach out in two to three days , leaving the water potable . They introduced themselves . Jens , the owner and charter cap- tain , was the bantam rooster type ...
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... asked him if he knew what conditions were now in the Kane Basin . He said the northerly wind would certainly have closed it off completely . That eliminated both Etah and Otto Sverdrup's 1898 wintering site of Fram Haven on Ellesmere ...
... asked him if he knew what conditions were now in the Kane Basin . He said the northerly wind would certainly have closed it off completely . That eliminated both Etah and Otto Sverdrup's 1898 wintering site of Fram Haven on Ellesmere ...
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... asked her brother to remain in New Zealand to tend to all the affairs of the estate . Although she was emo- tionally exhausted , she felt she had to come home - and home was on board our boat , wherever it was . She hoped to make ...
... asked her brother to remain in New Zealand to tend to all the affairs of the estate . Although she was emo- tionally exhausted , she felt she had to come home - and home was on board our boat , wherever it was . She hoped to make ...
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