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Nordic Book Club, December

Tue, Dec 12

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Nordic Book Club, December
Nordic Book Club, December

Time & Location

Dec 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST

Virtual, via Zoom

About the Event

NOTE:  This meeting of the Nordic Book Club will be ONE HOUR LATER than normal, @7pm Central Standard Time.  This change is for December 2023 only--we will return to our regular 6pm start time in February 2024.

In our last book club meeting of 2023, we will be reading Skiing Into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole, a memoir by Liv Arnesen, the first woman to ski unsupported to the South Pole.  The book is translated by Roland Huntford.  

From the publisher: At home in Norway it is eight o’clock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the Amundsen–Scott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in the morning of Christmas Day when Liv Arnesen, after skiing solo for 745 miles in fifty days, finally arrives. She had been dreaming of the South Pole for most of her forty-one years, and…

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