The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
by Sarah Moss

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Arctic and Antarctic travelers and their stories have seized the popular imagination for centuries. Emphasizing themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice, tales from the poles are testimony to both human curiosity and ambition and the often fatal attraction of alien landscapes. Some explorers, like Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen, have become iconic figures, while others, as famous in their day, have fallen into obscurity.

Polar expeditions have spawned a literature with its own history and style. The Frozen Ship is a thorough and thought-provoking examination of the most influential, popular, and intriguing accounts of journeys into the eternal ice, from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to Robert Falcon Scott’s meticulous account of his own dying, and from the tales of Nansen, Franklin, Parry, and Shackleton to the journals of little-known explorers, missionaries, and archaeologists from Europe and North America. The Frozen Ship considers the morbid fascination of expeditions that went horribly wrong and the even greater interest attached to those that were rescued at the last minute, and pays particular attention to the strange desire to find and even exhume long-lost travelers. Looking at risks ranging from frostbite and polar bears to starvation and cannibalism, it also reflects on the enduring appeal of romanticized frozen landscapes, the link between national identity and planting flags in the ice, the descriptions of indigenous communities and forgotten stories of women at the poles, as well as purely imaginary approaches to polar travel from Frankenstein to Winnie the Pooh.

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Weight:	0.44 kg
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ISBN-10:	1933346035
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781933346038
Author:	Sarah Moss
Publisher:	Blue Bridge Books New York
Publication Date:	2006
Pages:	272 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9 x 6
Binding:	Hardcover