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Cold coast

Author :  Robyn Mundy

Product Details

Country
Australia
Publisher
Ultimo Books
ISBN 9781761150210
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info ix, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Categories PR - English literature
Product Weight 390 gms.
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Inspired by the story of Svalbard's first female trapper, Gold Coast is a gripping portrayal of survival with the stark beauty and perilous wilderness of the high Arctic. In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers' fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Saeterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his disdain, that a woman is fit for the task. Over the course of a Svalbard winter, Wanny and Saeterdal will confront polar bears, traverse glaciers, withstand blizzards and the dangers of sea ice, and hike miles to trap Arctic fox, all in the frigid darkness of the four-month polar night. For Wanny, the darkness hides her own deceptions that, if exposed, speak to the untenable sacrifice of a 1930s woman longing to fulfil a dream. Alongside the raw, confronting nature of the trappers' work, is the story of a young blue Arctic fox, itself a hunter, who must eke out a living and navigate the trappers' world if it is to survive its first Arctic winter.

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