Title: disappointing
Product review: Having heard Ehrlich speak on NPR's Saavy Traveler about her time in Greenland, I had high hopes for THIS COLD HEAVEN. She spoke about the endless nights and endless days of the Artic, the cold and the snow and the ice. It promised to be a meditation on both the inner life of a writer living in relatively isolation and on her discovery of the riches that lay within that dark and cold world.Imagine my disappointment after handing over $... to find a book that was neither poetic nor particularly well done. Ehrlich's metaphors gush without precision. Her historical writing skills are dismall. I could barely get through her retelling of what by all accounts is a riviting history of human exploration of the Artic. The best parts of this book, which desperately needs an editor, were here own narratives. But they could not carry the three hundred plus pages saddled on them. Very disappointing.
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