In Island Sojourn, Arthur has a painter's eye for recording the world's voluptuousness, a philosopher's ability to get inside the objects of experience, and a writer's sensitivity for handling feelings...Her journal can join other works on life in the Canadian wilds, such as Wacousta, and Roughing It In The Bush, as a powerful witness to the wilderness experience. Literary Guild of Canada Arthur labors at tracking down essences and essential relationships in the progresses of wind and water, or human and animal...There are magnificent, stormy crossings to and from the island, both threatening and intimate;there are heart-stopping visions of an eagle, of swans contemplating the end of fall, of the shooting and soft death of a moose...Vigorous, scouring reportage which places Arthur firmly in line to join the Hoaglands and Dillards and other astringent precisionists. Kirkus, March 1, 1980

Island Sojourn

Literature & Fiction

Arthur, Elizabeth

Contemporary

Harpercollins

I have reads hundred of nonfiction and dozens of fiction books on the subject of mountaineering. Beyond the Mountain is the best written and most compelling novel relating to climbing I have ever read. Elizabeth Arthur is an extremely gifted novelist. Her story of the life of a complicated woman set against the background of a climb of one of the world's highest mountains is elegantly written and extremely moving. Arthur's sensitive portrayal of Nepal captures the essence of that wonderful and peculiar kingdom and true ambivalence of many Westerners toward it. Her images are vivid, her prose lyrical yet precise. Arlene Blum, author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place

Beyond the Mountain

Travel

Travel Writing

Harper & Row, Publishers, NY

Arthur recounts her two-year stay, with her husband, on an uninhabited island on a remote Canadian lake and her shocking realization that beneath the beauty and freedom of the wilderness lurks cruelty and violence

Island sojourn

Pan Australia

Antarctic Navigation

'A classic heroic quest ... absolutely fresh and engrossing. Reading the book becomes a kind of quest itself, after which the world will never again look the same' San Francisco Chronicle 'A vast and beautifully written book ... reads like a wonderful Victorian novel, weaving historical and contemporary dramas with rich sub-plots and vivid descriptions of the harsh landscape' Vogue 'A brilliant storyteller, Arthur spins this epic tale of adventure, passion, endurance and courage which has a grip that's impossible to resist' Woman &amp; Home 'In the dazzling landscape of the highest, driest, coldest place on earth, the detail and descriptions of the ice and the expedition she undertakes on the Scott trail are brilliant ... An excellent read' Choice

United States

Ballantine Books

Binding Spell is a very funny and exceedingly well-crafted comic novel... Elizabeth Arthur asks what life would be like if it were true that our wishing for happiness -- our working for it -- negated misery and brought contentment into existence. Life would be, as Arthur demonstrates, wonderful, unpredictable, and above all, funny. But in Binding Spell it is not enough to wish for change. First one must understand the world as it truly is, a living organism, on which everything is linked, so that "everything is all one thing." Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Chicago Sun-Times, August 28, 1988 Like an offbeat, modern fairy tale..(a) funny and moving story. After a wonderful climax during which a tornado wrecks havoc in Felicity, the characters variously achieve passion, happiness and balance. A tale full of wit and affection, Arthur's latest offering (after Bad Guys and Beyond the Mountain) also boasts the best collection of dogs in recent literature. Publisher's Weekly, July 15, 1988

Binding Spell

DOUBLEDAY

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Antartic Navigation

Random House Value Publishing

Like many people, I have a small select shelf of books set aside for re-reading each summer ... This shelf holds The Wind in The Willows, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Owen Johnson's Lawrenceville Stories, and now Looking for the Klondike Stone, an absolutely enchanting work that deserves a place by every hammock from Rehoboth to Rockaway Beach...This is a work of nearly Proustian intensity, a sort of a la recherche du camp perdu . . . Arthur's ability to convey the impressions of her childhood is eerie, almost supernatural. Her prose is lyrical, laced with the melancholy that comes from an adult's knowledge that paradise is always lost and wilderness once despoiled does not return. But her writing is whimsical, too, and sometimes almost surreally funny . . . The last pages of her book were so lovely, so sad and true in their evocation of beauty and childhood and loss that I had tears in my eyes and I bet you will, too . . . Those of us too old for Wynakee have Elizabeth Arthur's wonderful gift of Looking for the Klondike Stone, a distillation of the best summer you ever knew: literary alchemy at its most magical. Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post Book World, June 20, 1993

Looking For The Klondike Stone

KNOPF

'A classic heroic quest ... absolutely fresh and engrossing.Reading the book becomes a kind of quest itself, after which the world willnever again look the same' San Francisco Chronicle 'A vast and beautifully written book ... reads like awonderful Victorian novel, weaving historical and contemporary dramas with richsub-plots and vivid descriptions of the harsh landscape' Vogue 'A brilliant storyteller, Arthur spins this epic tale ofadventure, passion, endurance and courage which has a grip that's impossible toresist' Woman &amp; Home 'In the dazzling landscape of the highest, driest, coldestplace on earth, the detail and descriptions of the ice and the expedition sheundertakes on the Scott trail are brilliant ... An excellent read' Choice

Literary

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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Island Sojourn

Beyond the Mountain

Island sojourn

Antarctic Navigation

Binding Spell

Binding Spell

Antartic Navigation

Looking For The Klondike Stone

Antarctic Navigation

Antarctic Navigation