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

4.0

Excellent narrative nonfiction of Danish explorer William Barents’ three voyages attempting to discover an Arctic route to China (in the 1500s, there was a theory that the Arctic was a warm, open sea), culminating in a winter iced in off the coast of Nova Zembla. Includes really interesting contextual notes about how this voyage/disaster differed from other notable polar expeditions and trials.