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Solitude: Stories from the Barentsregion
Jeroen Toirkens
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Description for Solitude: Stories from the Barentsregion
Hardback. A 3000 kilometre road trip along the arctic circle; a photographic travelogue. Num Pages: 159 pages, 120 colour. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1QR; AJC; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Published as a luxurious diary, Solitude provides an intimate image of people living in remote places. Within the Arctic Circle, north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia - known as the Barentsregion - is one of Europe's last remaining wildernesses. Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens and writer Petra Sjouwerman went looking for stories in this region, comparing their own adventures with the historical diary of Gerrit de Veer, one of the crew on Dutch navigator Willem Barents' third voyage in search of the Northeast passage, during the sixteenth century.
Published as a luxurious diary, Solitude provides an intimate image of people living in remote places. Within the Arctic Circle, north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia - known as the Barentsregion - is one of Europe's last remaining wildernesses. Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens and writer Petra Sjouwerman went looking for stories in this region, comparing their own adventures with the historical diary of Gerrit de Veer, one of the crew on Dutch navigator Willem Barents' third voyage in search of the Northeast passage, during the sixteenth century.
Product Details
Publisher
Lannoo Publishers Belgium
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
574 g
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Tielt, Belgium
ISBN
9789401412360
SKU
V9789401412360
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Ref
99-15
About Jeroen Toirkens
Jeroen Toirkens has won numerous prizes, including the Canon Photo Award as a photographer and film maker and his work has been published in Monocle and le Monde. Petra Sjouwerman is a Dutch journalist living and working in Denmark and Scandinavia. She has won an EU Journalist Award. Together they created the multimedia project Roots2share in Greenland. ... Read more
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