A review by suebrownreads
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts

4.0

An interesting book and well-written. I can't say it was as exciting as most of the books I have read on this subject, but I think the author did a lot of research and presented the information that was available. I do find it hard to take the killing of their dogs. I understand this is necessary in times of starvation, but in some cases, they just did not prepare well ahead of time, and once they mention being in an Inuit camp where dogs were not allowed, due to farm animals, so the dogs were put down. They just seemed to regard them as so easily expendable although the dogs had worked so hard, suffered so much, and were the only way the missions could have even taken place at all.