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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in many ways the greatest polar explorer of them all. In this engrossing narrative of the Far North, enriched by her own adventurous sojourns in the Arctic, Andrea Pitzer brings Barents' three harrowing expeditions to vivid life--while giving us fascinating insights into one of history's most intrepid navigators.
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"It's a darkly fascinating tale about a venture that appears today—and must have seemed to many at the time—sheer folly ..."
"On page after page the crew's adventures and survival ordeals are beautifully rendered[.]"
"Yet Pitzer seems reluctant to venture into the minds of the individuals who gambled so much and took such pains to tell their stories."
"This engrossing account thrills and educates."
"To break up the winter monotony, Pitzer works hard to establish context, whether of exploration in general or polar castaways in particular."
"for its richly descriptive contribution to the literature of harrowing expeditions, Andrea Pitzer's deeply researched Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World is most welcome ..."
"Icebound while fluid in its telling and thorough in its research, necessarily lacks the human element of the greatest adventure tales."
"A meticulously researched history of maritime tragedy."
"This is a masterful re-creation of a desperate fight for survival."
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