White

Sylvain Tesson
Translated by Christine Gutman
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Sylvain Tesson
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180 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Oct 06, 2025
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 180
  • Publisher: Polity Press
  • ISBN: 9781509565528
  • Dimensions: 5.598425196" W x 1.0" L x 8.401574803" H
Sylvain Tesson is one of France’s leading travel and nature writers, whose books have won him a wide international readership and a number of top prizes, including the 2019 Prix Renaudot for The Art of Patience. His highly regarded book Consolations of the Forest was published in English in 2014.
"Sylvain Tesson is more a word artist than a nonfiction writer. He writes with the nuanced ear of a great novelist, the soul of a poet, and the urgency of a messenger. White is both journey and pilgrimage, part travelogue, part prayer."
Carl Safina, ecologist and author

"A journal from the edge of the world, laced with witty, poetic observations and exquisitely graceful turns of phrase."
Le Monde des Livres

"A vertiginous immersion in the secret beauty of snow-capped summits, a journey as poetic as it is spiritual."
La Grande Librairie

"The French writer Sylvian Tesson feels anxiety lilt, bitterness vanish and travel transform into prayer in the course of a ski journey across the Alps."
Sara Wheeler, The Spectator

"Magnificent"
Justin Marozzi, The Spectator Best Books of the Year 2025

"Lyrical... Readers will be swept up in this sly intellectual adventure."
Publishers Weekly

"Sylvain Tesson is a fan of extreme adventures testing his mental and physical endurance. That urge beckons him toward the mountains… Like Herman Melville's Captain Ahab in pursuit of his whale, Mr. Tesson is drawn to 'The White,' his mythic name for mountain snowscapes."
The Wall Street Journal

"This latest offering from Tesson is a gem: unusually erudite, hugely readable, often funny and a little bit bonkers."
Justin Marozzi, The Critic

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