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Against the ice, the classic Arctic survival story, Ejnar Mikkelsen ; foreword by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ; translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael

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Against the ice, the classic Arctic survival story, Ejnar Mikkelsen ; foreword by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ; translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael

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eng

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non fiction

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Against the ice

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Ejnar Mikkelsen ; foreword by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ; translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael

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the classic Arctic survival story

Summary

Mikkelsen, an experienced Arctic adventurer, set out in 1909 to prove that Robert Perry's outline of the East Greeland coast was erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen, a ship's mechanic with no experience as an explorer, joined the expedition. Months later, the two men found themselves cut off from the world, suffering every imaginable Arctic travail: Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear. The two retained their sanity -- and their humor -- for three days. This is their harrowing account of survival and companionship

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adult

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