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Icebound
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- Book Synopsis
- A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his 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 sixteenth-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew, who ventured further north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar expedition, 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.
- About The Author
- Andrea Pitzer is a journalist whose writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Outside, the Daily Beast, Vox and Slate, among other publications. She studied at MIT and Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She grew up in West Virginia and currently lives with her family near Washington, DC.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781471182761
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., (09 December 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 244 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 23 mm
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