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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
4.0
An account of the voyages of Willem Barentsz to the North Pole, at an age where polar exploration had not yet entered into the public consciousness.
Seeking a trade route to China, the newly founded Dutch kingdom sent Barents on 3 expeditions to try and find a fabled Northern route towards Asia. It was the time believed that the polar sea should be ice-free due to the constant sunshine during summer. The Dutchmen went totally unprepared. There no heavy winter clothing, no preparations to ward off scurvy, which was the scourge of sailors at that time, and certainly no preparations for wintering over the Arctic circle in perpetual night during Barentsz third and final expedition.
Seeking a trade route to China, the newly founded Dutch kingdom sent Barents on 3 expeditions to try and find a fabled Northern route towards Asia. It was the time believed that the polar sea should be ice-free due to the constant sunshine during summer. The Dutchmen went totally unprepared. There no heavy winter clothing, no preparations to ward off scurvy, which was the scourge of sailors at that time, and certainly no preparations for wintering over the Arctic circle in perpetual night during Barentsz third and final expedition.