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The Ice Master (Paperback)

by Jennifer Niven (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (9 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330391232
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330391238
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 326,786 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback (Reprint) |  Unbound  |  All Editions

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Eighty-five years after a famous, but ill-equipped, Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913 had sacrificed 16 lives, some artefacts appeared on an Internet auction site. They had originated at a "ghost camp" discovered i n 1924 where four of the expedition's 28 men, one woman and two children had perished. Jennifer Niven has completed the unfulfilled mission of survivor William McKinlay to produce a "more honest and revealing account" of the wreck of the Karluk and its aftermath.

The explorers became split into several dispersed groups living "in the shadow of death". Their simultaneous grim and gruesome experiences are interwoven in this minutely detailed and atmospheric retelling, created by combining and comparing separate first-hand accounts and other sources. The characters are vividly recreated, from the expedition's self-interested leader, whom McKinlay named "a consummate liar and cheat", to the heroic ship's master who struggled over 700 miles to organise a rescue. Supplemented by haunting and fascinating photographs, The Ice Master can be harrowing and touching. It makes exciting and compulsive reading. This is a momentous story of the Arctic; of adventure, misadventure and the heights of human endurance. But it is also a story of human failings and the waste of young lives, as poignant now as it was when it was big news in 1914. --Karen Tiley --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members, their descendants and, astonishingly, interviews with survivors, Jennifer Niven's book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious - and disastrous - Arctic expeditions ever mounted. It is a story about unlikely heroes and unexpected villains - humans reduced to their primal needs by the infinite power and mystery of nature...'For more than 30 years I have been reading polar survival stories, but none so gripping and meticulously based on the written accounts of the survivors as "The Ice Master"' - Ranulph Fiennes, "Daily Mail". 'A powerful narrative' - "The Independent". 'Riveting and meticulously researched' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'Niven's remarkable epic is something special...an astonishing read' - "Publishing News". 'With so much repetitive polar stuff on the market, it is a relief to come across something fresh' - "Literary Review".

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