| The Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun Contributor(s): Watkins, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312359411 ISBN-13: 9780312359416 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2006 Annotation: An acclaimed writer describes his spellbinding trek through the mountains of Norway--a grand but harsh landscape where myth and reality meet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 914.810 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the author of The Ice Soldier, comes a real-life adventure among the fjords and icy mountains of Norway. Certain geographies speak to people. We are awed by mountains, challenged by the ocean, haunted by the bleakness of deserts. The effect of landscape on human consciousness is at the heart of novelist Paul Watkins's exhilarating travel story. Long bewitched by the stark beauty of the Scandinavian Alps, Watkins sets off among the ice-clad peaks and dark fjords of the arctic with only a tent and rucksack. On the way, he stops at rustic inns, follows the paths of other solitary travelers, navigates the punishing weather, and confronts the magisterial presence of the past among these mountains--a journey that makes for one of our finest accounts of the life and the land in the frozen north. |
Contributor Bio(s): Watkins, Paul: - Paul Watkins is the author of many novels, including The Forger, Archangel, and Night over Day over Night, as well as the memoir Stand Before Your God. He attended the Dragon School at Eton and Yale, and currently lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey, where he teaches at the Peddie School and Lawrenceville Academy. |
