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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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"But like most stories of arctic adventure, there is a more prosaic aspect ..."
"Besides traveling in Barents's footsteps, she has diligently mined the sources ..."
"the real grip of the book lies in the horrendous dangers and hardships endured by Barents and his shipmates, and the determination with which they met them ..."
"Although sometimes overwhelmed by repetitive detail, Pitzer's narrative vividly conveys tension and terror."
"This engrossing account thrills and educates."
"She writes vividly about the 'unnerving isolation' of venturing north and east of Scandinavia into uncharted waters."
"More than just another book about a disastrous sea voyage, this is a richly evocative story about a particular period in the history of exploration.Icebound deserves a place beside such classics as Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage and Roland Huntford's The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundson's Race to the South Pole ."
"Pitzer's prose is beautifully wrought, but unrelenting."
"Yet Pitzer seems reluctant to venture into the minds of the individuals who gambled so much and took such pains to tell their stories."
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