BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


The Left Hand of Darkness Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Ursula K. Le Guin
About 90 pages (26,941 words)
The Left Hand of Darkness Summary

Bookmark and Share

Chapter 18, On the Ice Summary

Genly recalls the routine of their journey over the course of the past 50 days. He would wake first, and although Estraven gave him a few more ounces of food because of his size, Genly remained permanently hungry. After breakfast, which consisted of a cup of boiling hot orsh and a cube of gichy-michy expanded by hot water into a small bun of sorts, they would then pack up the bags and pans and mugs and go outside the tent. Genly could never quite believe how cold it was, and every morning it felt as though he experienced it anew. They then would collapse the tent, fold it along with the other equipment onto the sledge and fasten their skis and harnesses

Sometimes, after heavy snowfall, Genly and Estraven would have.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 1,049 words. This study guide contains 26,941 words (approx. 90 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our The Left Hand of Darkness Access Pass.

 
Copyrights
The Left Hand of Darkness from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy