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In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.The human story has always been one of perseverance—often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger, and endless winter. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration—a time of hope, adventure, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin. “A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope” (The New Yorker), Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below, the history of mutiny, the art of celestial navigation, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage.

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This is a page-turner of an Arctic adventure/survival story, with vivid descriptions of the land, sea, and, most of all, the endless crushing ice. The Barents expeditions searched the High Arctic for a northeast passage between Europe and China in the closing years of the 16th century. Their voyages were filled with wonders and hardships, even before Barents' ship was trapped by ice at the far northern edge of Nova Zembla, when the adventure truly begins. Frequent near-death encounters with polar bears frame moments of beauty and mystery, such as the Arctic sunrise that stunned the expedition when it arrived several weeks before the expected end of the polar night. (The phenomenon was only fully understood in 1979, when it was named the Novaya Zemlya effect.)I have read almost every Arctic (and Antarctic) survival story written or translated into English, and this is the best I've read yet. It weaves the nail-biting drama of surviving in a hostile world of ice and sea and stone together with the larger historical context driving that exploration: the expansion of empires and the cruelty and exploitation that came with them. At the same time, the reader can still enjoy the sense of awe and discovery of exploring a new and unknown domain, filled with strange people, cryptic monuments, and fearful wildlife.If you'd like to learn more about the research that went into this book, the author wrote a gorgeous story about the Arctic sailing trip she took to Nova Zembla, published in Outside Magazine as "My Mid-Life Crisis as a Russian Sailor." For various reasons, I can't visit the Arctic myself, but this story made me feel like I'd actually been there, more than anything else I've read.Bottom line: if you enjoy a well-written adventure story with the depth and detail that comes from serious research, hit the order button now.

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