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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Pitzer, Andrea.     Subjects     Barentsz, Willem, approximately 1550-1597 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.     Survival.     Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.     Northeast Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.     Novaiı aıŁ Zemliı aıŁ (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pitzer, Andrea.       by title:      Icebound : shipwreck...       by call number:      LP 910.916324 P692i     Search the Web     Pitzer, Andrea.     Barentsz, Willem, approximately 1550-1597 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.     Survival.     Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.     Northeast Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.     Novaiı aıŁ Zemliı aıŁ (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.       MARC Display

Icebound : shipwrecked at the edge of the world / Andrea Pitzer. by Pitzer, Andrea. Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, c2021. Call #: LP 910.916324 P692i Subjects Barentsz, Willem, approximately 1550-1597 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.   Survival.   Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.   Northeast Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.   Novaiı aıŁ Zemliı aıŁ (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch. ISBN:  9781432887759 (large print hc.) Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  432 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "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 visceral, thrilling account full of tantalizing surprises' (Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal), 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 first-hand glimpse into the true nature of human courage."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 910.916324 P692i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 910.916324 P692i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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