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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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A brilliant interweaving of journeys and voyagesÑgeographical, historical, psychologicalÑThe Terrors of Ice and Darkness is the riveting account of a narrator obsessed with a certain Josef Mazzini, a young Italian Òlost in the arctic winter of 1981" who is himself obsessed with the Imperial Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1873: ÒAt first it was nothing more than a game to try to reduce the circumstances of his disappearance to some sort of explanation, any explanation. But every clue yielded a new unanswered question. Quite involuntarily I found myself taking one step after the other. . . . Cumulus clouds mirrored in a shop window became calving glaciers, patches of old snow in city parks became great floes of ice. The Arctic Ocean lay at my window. Much the same thing must have happened to Mazzini."Painstakingly retracing Mazzini’s steps, the narrator simultaneously reconstructs the dramatic and fantastic story of the nineteenth-century journey, using actual letters and diaries of the members of that harrowing expedition. These documentsÑsometimes surprisingly poetic and movingÑcombine in the narrator’s imagination to evoke as never before the awful beauty of the world’s farthest northern reaches. In a novel as crystalline as the polar ice, as penetrating as the arctic cold, Christopher Ransmayr spins an adventure tale both spellbinding and paradoxical in its subversive undermining of conventional notions of heroism and exploration. | The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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