{"product_id":"9781593761592","title":"Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland","description":"\u003cbr\u003eA Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.\u003cp\u003eSjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the North Cape, she encounters increasing darkness and cold, but also radiant light over the mountains and snow fields. She crosses the Finnmark Plateau by dogsled, attends a Sami film festival (with an outdoor ice screen), and visits Santa's Post Office in Finland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of three winters, Sjoholm unearths the region's rich history, including the culture of the Sami. As Sjoholm becomes more familiar with 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 maintain their reindeer grazing lands and migration routes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Palace of the Snow Queen,\u003c\/i\u003e Sjoholm relates her adventures in the far north, and considers how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create, at a time of global warming, a vision that increasingly draws visitors to Lapland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035409498352,"sku":"9781593761592","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593761592_p0.jpg?v=1763813325","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593761592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}