A review by eljaspero
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer

3.0

An okay, but not quite even good, polar history. Because the evidence on Barents and his voyages is so very fragmentary, the author pads the narrative with innumerable tangents on things that are also cold, or dangerous, or also happened really far north. A leaner, more focused, work would have been a more honest, and more satisfying, read.