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Driving to Greenland: Arctic Travel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter by: Peter Stark List Price: $22.95 Amazon.com's Price: $1.90 You Save: $21.05 (92%)as of 06/19/2013 06:50 EDT Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
EAN: 9781558213203 Edition: First Edition ISBN: 1558213201 Item Dimensions: Label: Burford Books Languages: Manufacturer: Burford Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: December 29, 1997 Publisher: Burford Books Studio: Burford Books Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Plimptonesque jaunts and essays on winter sports and arctic travel, by a contributing editor to Outside Magazine. Amazon.com Review: Peter Stark's Driving to Greenland delivers the many voices of winter with a crystalline clarity. Intensely personal and often electrifying, Stark's collection of essays, now in paperback, share a love for winter with an acute eye for its scientific virtues as well as the grandness of ice and snow. Following the autobiographical introductory essay, "A Life Built on Snow," 11 essays are divided among three sections: "The Way Down: Winter Sports," "The Road North: Arctic Travel," and "On the Surface: Snow and Ice." In "The Way Down," Stark relates his hair-raising adventures--experiments, really--ski-jumping, luge-running, taking on the frightfully steep Aztec run at Aspen, and skiing with World Extreme Skiing Champion Doug Coombs. Writings in "The Road North" evoke a strong sense of place, as Stark hops into a VW bus and heads for Greenland, explores the duality of Iceland's fire and ice, and paddles into the legacy of the sea kayak. "On the Surface" brings the collection nicely to a close with an intimate, and at times magical, sense of wonder. Of midnight ice-boating, Stark writes, "You're released from friction as well as sprung from time and space, aware only of raw speed--a slender projectile wrapped in the scream of the wind and the roar of the runners." Within these covers Stark relates life's lessons learned at the brink, often at high speeds, as he slips, regains an edge, and rights himself again and again. An elegant and wise book. --Byron Ricks Average Rating: none
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