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

444 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective medium-paced
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Well into the nineteenth century, Arctic explorers believed that they need only their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe, and from there they would tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Instead, hundreds of adventur...

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