The Fellowship of Ghosts Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun

by Watkins, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780312359416
• ISBN10: 0312359411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

From the author of The Ice Soldier, comes a real-life adventure among the fjords and icy mountains of Norway. Certain geographies speak to people. We are awed by mountains, challenged by the ocean, haunted by the bleakness of deserts. The effect of landscape on human consciousness is at the heart of novelist Paul Watkins's exhilarating travel story. Long bewitched by the stark beauty of the Scandinavian Alps, Watkins sets off among the ice-clad peaks and dark fjords of the arctic with only a tent and rucksack. On the way, he stops at rustic inns, follows the paths of other solitary travelers, navigates the punishing weather, and confronts the magisterial presence of the past among these mountains--a journey that makes for one of our finest accounts of the life and the land in the frozen north.

Author Biography

Paul Watkins is the author of ten novels and the memoir Stand Before Your God. He attended The Dragon School, Eton, and Yale, and currently lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey, where he teaches at the Peddie School and Lawrenceville Academy.

Table of Contents

Deep-Sea Dreamer	p. 1
The Great Silence	p. 17
Rainbows Like Wings	p. 33
The Disguise of the Blue-Eyed Girl	p. 53
Cloudberries	p. 71
"I Am the Reason"	p. 97
"Words Are Not for Such Things"	p. 115
Elementals	p. 125
I See Myself Dead	p. 145
"The Englishman Is Mad"	p. 157
In Love with Matilda	p. 175
These Stones Are Whispering	p. 195
The Lesson of the Grail	p. 215
Epilogue	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 231
Acknowledgments	p. 235
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