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Icebound (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Icebound (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine
historian - and a wonderful writer' Peter Frankopan, author of the
bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn't that
familiar to us these days...but this enthralling, elemental and
literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance should
change all that' Roger Alton, Daily Mail A dramatic and compelling
account of survival against the odds from the golden Age of
Exploration. Since its beginning, the human story has been one of
exploration and survival - often against long odds. The longest
odds of all might have been faced by Dutch explorer William Barents
and his crew of fifteen, who on Barents' third journey into the Far
Arctic in the year 1597 lost their ship to a crush of icebergs and,
with few weapons and dwindling supplies, spent nine months fighting
off ravenous polar bears, gnawing cold and seemingly endless
winter. This is their story. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a
movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period
- a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and
geographic frontiers. At the story's centre is William Barents, one
of the sixteenth century's greatest navigators, whose
larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path
through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in
both catastrophe and glory - glory because the desperation that his
men endured had an epic quality that would echo through the
centuries as both warning and spur to polar explorers. In a
narrative that is filled with fascinating tutorials - on such
topics as survival at twenty degrees below, the degeneration of the
human body when it lacks Vitamin C, the history of mutiny, the
practice of keel hauling, the art of celestial navigation and the
intricacies of repairing masts and building shelters - the lesson
that stands above all others is the feats humans are capable of
when asked to double then triple then quadruple their physical
capacities.
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