A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a crosscultural journey an ethnographicfable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story.It is the st... » 

A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a crosscultural journey an ethnographicfable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story.It is the story of John MacLellan a young Canadian sailor who is left behindby his ship stranded among the native people of the arctic coast. It is thestory of one Chukchi community that adopts a crippled stranger and teaches himto live as a true human being. During the long winter John comes to know hisnew companionsfirst as untutored primitives then in the romantic light ofnoble savages and finally as a real people who share the best and worst ofhuman traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes and a life is lost and regiven a man rises to take the place of a boy wounds are healed withcompassion honesty and love. And when difficult times loom ahead it is hisnew family that John will fight to preserve. Rytkheus empathetic voice guidesus across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveals all the complexityand beauty of a vanishing world.Born in Uelen a village in the Chukotka region Yuri Rytkheu has sailed theBering Sea worked on Arctic geological expeditions and hunted whale in arcticwaters in addition to authoring over 10 novels and collections of stories. Inthe 1950s Rytkheu emerged as not only a writer of considerable literarytalent but as the unique voice of a small national minoritythe Chukchipeople. His novels and short stories about Chukotka and the Chukchi introducedgenerations of readers to the history and mythology of those who call one ofthe most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth their home.Bestsellers in Germany and Switzerland Rytkheus works are alsowellloved inJapan Denmark and France. «