Icebound

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice , a “gripping adventure tale” ( The Boston Globe ) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. 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 sixtee