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Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life by Peter Stark

Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life

Peter Stark

468 pages first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective medium-paced
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From the time of the ancient Greeks until the 19th century, European explorers imagined that beyond the ring of ice that encircled the Arctic lay a warm, calm sea that would take them to the Orient. Instead of this easy Northwest Passage, notes Pe...

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