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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Author's note -- FOX food falls from the sky -- 1 Tromsø, late July -- FOX a tattoo of scars -- 2 Tromsø, early August -- FOX days grow pale -- 3 Hyttevika, late August -- FOX a parade of antlers -- 4 Hyttevika, early September -- FOX the tundra closes down -- 5 Fuglefjell, September -- FOX a land turned white -- 6 Hyttevika, October -- FOX withered heads of bistort -- 7 Hyttevika, early November -- FOX maddening with want -- 8 Fuglefjell, late November -- FOX onto the frozen fjord -- 9 Hyttevika, Christmas -- FOX ice owl -- 10 Fuglefjell, January 1933 |
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FOX ptarmigan territory -- 11 Hyttevika, January -- FOX first to return -- 12 Hyttevika, February -- FOX the sun tumbles into view -- BEAR the quest for seal -- FOX a bounty of meat -- 13 Isbjørnhamn, April -- FOX new life -- 14 Fuglefjell, late April -- 15 Hyttevika, May -- 16 Fuglefjell, May -- 17 Hyttevika, June -- GUILLEMOT water cry -- 18 Hyttevika, July -- FOX the mountain alive -- 19 Tromsø, early August -- EPILOGUE Sørkjosen, northern Norway 26 October 1959 -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Copyright Page |
| Summary |
Inspired by the story of Svalbard's first female trapper, Gold Coast is a gripping portrayal of survival with the stark beauty and perilous wilderness of the high Arctic. In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers' fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Saeterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his disdain, that a woman is fit for the task. Over the course of a Svalbard winter, Wanny and Saeterdal will confront polar bears, traverse glaciers, withstand blizzards and the dangers of sea ice, and hike miles to trap Arctic fox, all in the frigid darkness of the four-month polar night. For Wanny, the darkness hides her own deceptions that, if exposed, speak to the untenable sacrifice of a 1930s woman longing to fulfil a dream. Alongside the raw, confronting nature of the trappers' work, is the story of a young blue Arctic fox, itself a hunter, who must eke out a living and navigate the trappers' world if it is to survive its first Arctic winter. -- Publisher |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2021) |
| Subject |
Woldstad, Wanny, 1893-1959 -- Fiction
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Trappers -- Fiction
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Trappers
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Svalbard (Norway) -- Fiction
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Svalbard
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| Genre/Form |
Australian fiction
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Fiction
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Historical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781761150227 |
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1761150227 |
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