Ebook {Epub PDF} The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm

In The Palace of the Snow Queen, Sjoholm relates her adventures in the far north, and considers how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create, at a time of global warming, a vision that increasingly draws visitors to bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland Biography and Memoir Series: Author: Barbara Sjoholm: Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard, Original from: the University of Michigan: 4/5(1).  · The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm. Shoemaker Hoard, Author Barbara Sjoholm makes her winter travels in Lapland personal from her first pages, where she confides her deep sadness and restlessness after a breakup with her long-term partner. These two emotions propelled her to undertake a difficult.

The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm. Shoemaker Hoard, Author Barbara Sjoholm makes her winter travels in Lapland personal from her first pages, where she confides her deep sadness and restlessness after a breakup with her long-term partner. These two emotions propelled her to undertake a difficult. A frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her. Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the North Cape, she encounters increasing darkness and cold, but also radiant light over the. The hotel, visited annually by thousands of people from around the world, reminds her of the ice palace in a beloved fairytale from her childhood, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." Over her three trips, Sjoholm explores the building as it is being built, spends the night there as a guest, and watches as it starts to shrink and drip.

The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm. Shoemaker Hoard, Author Barbara Sjoholm makes her winter travels in Lapland personal from her first pages, where she confides her deep sadness and restlessness after a breakup with her long-term partner. These two emotions propelled her to undertake a difficult. The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland Biography and Memoir Series: Author: Barbara Sjoholm: Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard, Original from: the University of Michigan. Sjoholm's book is an intriguing read - part travelogue, part history, and part social commentary about Lapland and its indigenous people, the Sami. Struggling to cope with the breakup of a long-term relationship and post-9/11 anxiety, she decides to travel to this region encompassing the areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland above the Arctic Circle in the winter of , and again in and