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"The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any...
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Contents
List of maps -- The open Polar Sea -- Off the edge of the map -- Death in the Arctic -- Sailing for the Pole -- Castaways -- The safe house -- The King of Nova Zembla -- The midnight sun and the false dawn -- Escape -- Staggering homeward -- Coda: The shores of Nova Zembla.