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Gretel Ehrlich

    Gretel Ehrlich is an American author whose works often delve into the landscape and spirit of the American West. Through her essays, novels, and poetry, she explores the relationship between humanity and nature, loss, and resilience. Her writing is notable for its lyrical quality and its profound understanding of the rugged beauty and emotional resonance of rural life. Ehrlich draws readers into worlds that are both specific and introspective, offering a perspective on life with respect for its challenges and wonders.

    Der Pferdeflüsterer
    Heart Mountain
    This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
    The Solace of Open Spaces
    Mitch Dobrowner: Storms
    • Mitch Dobrowner: Storms

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.6(36)Add rating

      Chronicling the breathtaking power of nature, this collection showcases Mitch Dobrowner's stunning photographs of storms captured across Western and Midwestern America. Partnering with storm chaser Roger Hill, Dobrowner combines his graphic design expertise with a deep appreciation for the complexity of super-cells and tornadoes. The book, featuring an introduction by Gretel Ehrlich, delves into the landscape tradition of the American West, highlighting Dobrowner's craftsmanship and the media acclaim surrounding his work.

      Mitch Dobrowner: Storms
    • The Solace of Open Spaces

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.2(62)Add rating

      A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.

      The Solace of Open Spaces
    • 4.0(885)Add rating

      For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine.Ehrlich unlocks the secrets of this severe land and those who live there; a hardy people who still travel by dogsled and kayak and prefer the mystical four months a year of endless darkness to the gentler summers without night. She discovers the twenty-three words the Inuit have for ice, befriends a polar bear hunter, and comes to agree with the great Danish-Inuit explorer Knud Rasmussen that “all true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of man, in great solitudes.”This Cold Heaven is at once a thrilling adventure story and a meditation on the clarity of life at the extreme edge of the world.

      This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland