Christiane Ritter

Christiane Ritter was an Austrian painter and author who spent a year living in a tiny trapper's hut on Spitsbergen in the Arctic in the 1930s. A Woman in the Polar Night, available as an audiobook and book, is her extraordinary memoir of that experience — the isolation, the beauty, the darkness and the profound transformation she underwent. First published in 1938, the book has been rediscovered as a masterpiece of nature and adventure writing for readers and listeners.