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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 look the Ice Hotel under construction and to fulfill the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the North Cape, she encounters increasing darkness and cold, but additionally radiant light over the mountains and snow fields. She crosses the Finnmark Plateau by dogsled, attends a Sami film festival (with an out of doors ice screen), and visits Santa’s Post Place of work in Finland.
Over the course of three winters, Sjoholm unearths the region’s wealthy history, including the culture of the Sami. As Sjoholm becomes more conversant in Kiruna, she writes of the changes occurring in northern Scandinavia and contemplates the tensions between tourism, the expansion of mining and development of the Ice Hotel, and age-old patterns of land use, the Sami’s struggle to take care of their reindeer grazing lands and migration routes.
In The Palace of the Snow Queen, Sjoholm relates her adventures within the far north, and considers how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create, at a time of global warming, a vision that increasingly more draws visitors to Lapland.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to look the Ice Hotel under construction and to fulfill the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the North Cape, she encounters increasing darkness and cold, but additionally radiant light over the mountains and snow fields. She crosses the Finnmark Plateau by dogsled, attends a Sami film festival (with an out of doors ice screen), and visits Santa’s Post Place of work in Finland.
Over the course of three winters, Sjoholm unearths the region’s wealthy history, including the culture of the Sami. As Sjoholm becomes more conversant in Kiruna, she writes of the changes occurring in northern Scandinavia and contemplates the tensions between tourism, the expansion of mining and development of the Ice Hotel, and age-old patterns of land use, the Sami’s struggle to take care of their reindeer grazing lands and migration routes.
In The Palace of the Snow Queen, Sjoholm relates her adventures within the far north, and considers how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create, at a time of global warming, a vision that increasingly more draws visitors to Lapland.
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