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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Audiobook
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'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' – Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads.
'The name of William Barents isn’t that familiar to us these days…but this enthralling, elemental and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance should change all that’ – Roger Alton, Daily Mail
‘Gripping … One of the great epics of human endurance’ – Mail on Sunday
A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions – the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.
The human story has always been one of perseverance – often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of sixteenth-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew, who ventured further north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar expedition, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger and endless winter.
In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration – a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers.
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“Enriched by her own adventurous sojourns in the Arctic, Andrea Pitzer brings Barents’ three harrowing expeditions to vivid life—while giving us fascinating insights into one of history’s most intrepid navigators.”
— Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author
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“Dramatic and dire…Pitzer’s descriptions of the region sing.
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“A fascinating modern telling of Barents’s expedition.”
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“[An] enthralling, elemental, and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance.”
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“Richly descriptive…For these explorers, it was as if they had visited another planet, a hostile place of alien creatures and otherworldly horrors.”
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“A visceral, thrilling account full of tantalizing surprises.”
— Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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About Andrea Pitzer
Andrea Pitzer is the author of three critically acclaimed works of nonfiction, Icebound, One Long Night, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. As a journalist, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Outside, The Daily Beast, Vox, and Slate, among other publications. She received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and later studied at MIT and Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
About Fred Sanders
Fred Sanders, an actor and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has received critics’ praise for his audio narrations that range from nonfiction, memoir, and fiction to mystery and suspense. He been seen on Broadway in The Buddy Holly Story, in national tours for Driving Miss Daisy and Big River, and on such television shows as Seinfeld, The West Wing, Will and Grace, Numb3rs,Titus, and Malcolm in the Middle. His films include Sea of Love, The Shadow, and the Oscar-nominated short Culture. He is a native New Yorker and Yale graduate.