Between Sea and Glacier:
Greenland in a Changing World
Wilfred E. Richard
228 pages, 8 x 12"
April 2019
ISBN 978-0-9967480-5-6
$45, hardcover
The story of finding a people in possession of a spirit which reminds all of us that the world we inhabit is both larger and more fragile than we could have imagined.
The people of Greenland possess a robust spirit, born of the land, which speaks to me. At this time of the Age of Man, the Anthropocene, of human-induced climate change, I recognize that a tradition of respect for the land prevails in Greenland. With all the community dependent on the land, a spirit of cooperation has evolved through a melding of Inuit communal culture with Scandinavian social democracy. I write of Greenland, of its culture and people in possession of an existence, which is based on hunter-gatherer knowledge of the land." From the introduction.
Wilfred Richard's spiritual journey to his new found second home culminates in a passionate recounting of his adventures through spectacular photographs and compassionate text.
A co-publication with with the Arctic Studies Center-Smithsonian Institution.