The Devil's Labyrinth: Encounters with the Arctic
by Johnson, Clive

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To contemplate travelling across the drifting ice on foot, hauling sledges loaded with enough food, fuel and equipment to sustain life for a hundred days, requires men with a rare strain of polar madness running through their veins.

The Devil's Labyrinth is a compelling blend of polar history and the story of just such a trip undertaken by the author with Davit Mitchell and Dr. Steve Martin. It was a unique attempt to struggle against the strong southerly drift just north of Henrietta Island off northern Siberia, then get on to the transpolar drift stream and use it to reach the Pole. Contending with unseasonal and cripplingly cold temperatures, plus the debilitating pain of frostbite and young thin ice cracking up all around them they knew that the slightest error of judgement would probably kill them. But there was always the intoxicating wildness and beauty of it all, the thrill of the challenge and their own indomitable wills to keep them going.

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Quantity:	1 item(s) available
Weight:	0.40 kg
Price:	CDN$ 15.00 (US$ 14.60)

ISBN-10:	1853102113
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781853102110
Stock Number:	10269AN
Author:	Johnson, Clive
Publisher:	Swan Hill Press
Publication Date:	1995
Pages:	144 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8vo - over 7¾
Binding:	Cloth
Condition:	144 pp,colour photos,bumped spine,front cover & jacket chip.,Very Good / Good,