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Life on Svalbard
Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world’s northernmost town. Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered Arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Since 2015, Cecilia has called this beautiful and remote location home. Along with her partner, Christoffer, and her dog, Grim, she has adjusted to life at the top of the world—where polar bears roam free and northern lights shine bright. With evocative text and spectacular photography, Cecilia shares the joys and challenges of adapting to an inhospitable climate. Her story begins in the darkness of polar night, and the allure of her remote location is revealed gradually as sunlight returns months later. Through personal stories and firsthand advice, Cecilia offers insight for anyone seeking to thrive in unusual living conditions. Whatever your location, Life on Svalbard will give you a deeper understanding of why people choose to live in extreme environments and perhaps help you find the hidden magic of where you live too.
Hearts in the Ice
Hearts in the Ice is a story of adventure and action, courage and connection, sustainability and survival. Hilde and Sunniva will take you inside their personal accounts of a year of surviving and thriving in a rustic trappers cabin 140 km away from the nearest town-a pivotal moment in Svalbard history; a quick peek at the female explorers who came before them and a testament to the power of community and collaboration.
How to Winter
Essential strategies for turning life's challenges into opportunities for growth - Carol Dweck, author of Mindset. Do you dread the clocks changing, and struggle to feel positive in winter? Nobody can change grey skies and drizzly weather, but Dr. Kari Leibowitz's groundbreaking How to Winter will help you dramatically shift how you feel about the darkest and coldest of the seasons. Leibowitz is the world's foremost winter psychology mindset expert, and in How to Winter she sets out evidence-based strategies to help you learn not only to accept the chillier months, but even to embrace them. Drawing on her extensive PhD research, and insight from cultures around the world, Leibowitz offers practical, easy-to-follow advice for transforming your experience of wintertime. What's more, she sets out how techniques used for shifting our mindsets around winter can also be used to cope with times of emotional difficulty. Whether you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, or simply find yourself in an annual slump, How to Winter will help you learn to thrive in cold, dark or difficult times.
Death in the Arctic
'Fiendishly clever' David Goodman 'A trip into the arctic darkness you won't want to miss!' J M Hall 'With its secrets, suspicions and unusual setting, Death in the Arctic is [Hindle's] best yet!' Anita Frank 'The setting is stunning and the mystery is entertaining, and now I really want airship travel to be a thing.' The Guardian 'A fantastic locked-room mystery' My Weekly 'Chilling' Crime Monthly 'Terrific... claustrophobic, surreal [and] dazzling' The Sunday Times 'This escapist mystery is out of this world!' Fabulous __________________________________________ A frozen wilderness. A killer in the skies. When aspiring travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying ...
The Orchid House
Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title Hothouse Flower. From beloved New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, a “sweeping, poignant saga that will enthrall fans of The House at Riverton, Rebecca, and Downton Abbey” (Shelf Awareness). Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences. As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate reminiscent of Downton Abbey where her gra...
Over winteren
Nooit meer winterblues, winterdip of Blue Monday: Over winteren is een inspirerend boek waarmee zelfs de echte winterhater kan leren houden van de donkere dagen en de kou Zie jij ook ieder jaar weer op tegen die koude wintermaanden? Klaag je over de korte donkere dagen en grijp je naar een speciale lamp om januari en februari door te komen? Zou het niet geweldig zijn om meer te kunnen genieten van deze tijd van het jaar? Psycholoog Kari Leibowitz bracht een jaar door in Noorwegen – ten noorden van de poolcirkel – om onderzoek te doen naar de geestelijke gezondheid van de Noren die in de winter twee maanden lang geen daglicht zien. Tot haar grote verbazing waren die mensen over het algeme...
Sníh, sauna, Suomi
O tom, že Finsko je zemí tisíců jezer, Santa Clause a ne zrovna příznivého klimatu, slyšel snad každý. Ale víte, proč si Finové pletou běžkování a lyžování? Nebo že si můžete přivolat finského peněžního skřítka? Jak probíhá saunový teambuilding? Kolik odrazek je už moc i na Fina? A v čem jsou si tak podobní s Japonci? O tom všem a všeličem jiném se dočtete v knize Michaely Ahonen, Slovenky, která se přestěhovala do temného a studeného Finska, země mlčenlivých lidí, prohibice, mýtů a legend, zateplených šusťáků, lesů bohatých na houby a borůvky – a manželova rodiště. Své zážitky ze života v tomto severském státě autorka vypráví stylem jí vlastním, připojuje mnoho kuriózních a vtipných postřehů, cenných rad, a prozradí i nějaké ty místní vychytávky, které si oblíbíte možná i vy. Dozvíte se tak víc o rodinném životě ve Finsku, o Kalevale, všemocných haalari, finském designu, finštině a samozřejmě o saunování a (ne)chutném finském jídle. A určitě se naučíte i trošku finsky. Tak vzhůru na zasněžený sever!
Svalbard
The Bradt guide to Svalbard (Spitsbergen), including Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen, is a unique, standalone guidebook to this evocative Arctic archipelago, a place that is plunged into darkness for four months each year and where there are 4,000 snow scooters for a population of just 2,500. This new sixth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and offers new material on everything from adventure tours to accommodation, environmental change to restaurants. Also covered are the restoration of Barentsburg and the opening of Svalbard's historic mines to visitors. Newly updated and amended, this edition reflects important recent changes in the archipelago, making it the perfect guide to ...
Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault--and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture: Now updated with a new chapter by the author and photos from recent improvements in the facilities. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation. The Global Seed Vault, ...
A Woman in the Polar Night
In this extraordinary adventure, a reluctant visitor to the Arctic thrives in the awesome and unforgiving landscape. In 1933, Christiane Ritter, a painter from Austria, travelled to Spitsbergen, an Arctic island north of Norway, to be with her husband. He had been taking part in a scientific expedition and stayed on to hunt and fish. “Leave everything as it is and follow me to the Arctic,” he wrote to his wife; but for Christiane, “as for all central Europeans, the Arctic was just another word for freezing and forsaken solitude. I did not follow at once.” Eventually she gave in, lured by his compelling stories about the remarkable wildlife and alluring light shows. She says: “They told of journeys by water and over ice, of the animals and the fascination of the wilderness, of the strange light over the landscape, of the strange illumination of one’s own self in the remoteness of the polar night. In his descriptions there was practically never any mention of cold or darkness, of storms or hardships.”
