Against the ice : the classic Arctic survival story / Ejnar Mikkelsen ; foreword by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ; translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.
"Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary's outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition's boat needed repair. Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear. Three years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor. Indeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings ..."-- Publisher's website.
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- ISBN: 9781586423346 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xi, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition: Steerforth Press edition.
- Publisher: Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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General Note: | "Inspiration for the Netflix film"--Cover. First published in Danish: Copenhagen : Gyldendal, 1955. This translation originally published as Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity. Translation of: Farlig Tomandsfr̆d. |
Language Note: | Translated from the Danish. |
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