TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mundy,Robyn
TI  - Cold coast
SN  - 9781761150210
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20211025
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ultimo, NSW
PB  - Ultimo Press
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Trappers
KW  - Norway
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Widows
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Nineteen thirties
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Arctic fox
KW  - Svalbard (Norway)
KW  - History
KW  - AUS historical fiction (Tasmania)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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