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    Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    Audiobook9 hours

    Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

    Written by Andrea Pitzer

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 12, 2021
    ISBN9781797120676
    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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    • 2/5
      Listened to the audiobook.

      I did not finish this book, I couldn't. Listened to three hours The writing is really good, the research even better. I'm going to get the other book by this very talented writer, but the people in this book weren't anyone I cared to learn about. Not in an audiobook of this length. A documentary, sure. These people were horrible, infuriatingly so. I don't care what they found, what they went through, or how they might have helped changed history for the better. All they did was steal, kidnap, over-punish and kill just about every dang animal they came across. Again, I get that this is real life, but it doesn't mean I have to like them or want to hear anything about them in any great detail.

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