A Dream in Polar Fog (Paperback)

Yuri Rytkheu (Author)

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A Dream in Polar Fog

A Dream in Polar Fog

£8.99 £5.00

A Dream in Polar Fog

£8.99 £5.00
When ice traps John MacLennan's ship in the Bering Strait in 1910, the youthful sailor blows up his hands trying to widen a small fissure with dynamite.

Local Chukchi men take him by dogsled to a medicine woman, but gangrene sets in and John's hands have to be amputated. Then strong winds break the ice shelf and his ship sails off without him ...

John gradually adapts to his handicap, adopting Chukchi ways and finding friendship, and love, among his hosts. Even his role in the tragic, accidental death of his best friend pulls him deeper into the community's folds.

A remarkable tale of resilience and reconciliation set in one of the most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth.
  • Publisher: Telegram Books
  • ISBN: 9781846590405
  • Pages: 337
  • Weight: 0.334
Yuri Rytkheu was born in Uelen, a village in the Chukotka region of Siberia. He sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, and hunted in Arctic waters, in addition to writing over a dozen novels and collections of stories. A Dream in Polar Fog was a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Notable Book in 2006. In the late 1950s, Rytkheu emerged not only as a great literary talent, but as the unique voice of a small national minority – the Chukchi people, a shrinking community residing in one of the most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth.

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