'Herzog's existential journey through a hostile winter landscape is
one of the great modern pilgrimages - a record of physical
suffering, of hallucination and ecstatic revelation, of portents
and animals, of the wreckage of history and myth. Of Walking in Ice
has the eerie power of the best fairytales. It hits you with the
force of dreams and leaves you with the taste of snow-filled
air'
Helen MacDonald, author H is for Hawk, winner of the 2014 Samuel
Johnson Prize for non-fiction
Werner Herzog has produced, written and directed more than fifty feature and documentary films, including the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, My Best Fiend, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Nosferatu, Lessons of Darkness, Littler Dieter Needs To Fly, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev and Encounters At The End of the World. He has also directed many operas and published more than a dozen books of prose including Conquest of the Useless and Of Walking In Ice. The Twilight World is his first book in decades.
'Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know, it tells the
story of a winter pilgrimage, made in desperation and in hope. At
once a diary, a blizzard of weather and memories, and the record of
a ritual: only Herzog could have written this weird, slender
classic.'
*Robert Macfarlane*
'Herzog's pilgrimage is a fugue and an absurdist comedy as rich as
anything in his cinema'.
*Iain Sinclair*
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