A Winter Away from Home

A Winter Away from Home PDF Author: Rayner Unwin
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Book Description
The first West Europeans to winter in the high Arctic and survive, Dutch sailing-master William Barents and his 16-member crew battled scurvy, hunger, the assaults of bears, and the intense winter cold, then made a 1,600-mile escape in open boats. Barents died on the way home, but his voyage was meticulously recorded in remarkably vivid detail by one of the survivors.