The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven
Title: The Ice Master
Genre: Non Fiction Author: Jennifer Niven Edition: Published by Pan Books 2001 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.
It was to be the grandest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history. In fact, it was to be the most comprehensive scientific attack on the Artic of all time, with the largest scientific staff ever taken on such an expedition. The Ice Master is an epic tale of adventure, with a cast of characters as rich as any novel. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals of crew members, their descendants, and astonishly, interviews with survivors, Jennifer Niven’s book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious – and disastrous – Arctic expeditions ever mounted. It is a story about unlikely heroes and unexpected villains – humans reduced to their primal needs by the infinite power and mystery of nature….
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