Here is the description for this week:
This week choose a book that reflects a journey for its author/protagonist or for the reader or both. This can be a physical journey, an emotional, psychological or spiritual journey or a combination of these. Any nonfiction title that leaves its author/protagonist and/or reader in a different place at the end from the start point is good for this challenge. Hosted by Frances at volatilerune.blog.
I guess of the nonfiction books I read this year, three fit this description. I’m not going to count the biographies, which could be viewed as a journey through life. Here is the one I chose:
The most like a journey for me was in A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter. She was the first European woman to live in Svalbard for a year. At the time, the area was inhabited pretty much only by the Inuit and hunters, mostly from Norway. Her husband had already been there for a year when he asked her to come. She was at first appalled at the bleakness and emptiness of the area and the primitive living conditions, but by the end of the year, she had been captured by its beauty and solitude. I am always interested in the empty regions of the world. I found this book really fascinating and the descriptions were wonderful.
