Icebound
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
$54.84
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2022
Summary
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 Bare…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982113353 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1982113359 |
| Author: | Andrea Pitzer |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 137mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“A gripping adventure tale that deserves an honored place in the long bookshelf of volumes dealing with arctic shipwrecks, winter ordeals, and survival struggles.” -Boston Globe
About The Author
Andrea Pitzer
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 has authored two previous books, One Long Night and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov–both critically acclaimed. She received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1994, and later 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. Icebound is her most recent work.
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