Format :
Retail CD (In Stock)
-
1 Format: Retail CD
-
$39.99
ISBN: 9781797120690
| Runtime: | 9.31 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Dramatic and dire…Pitzer’s descriptions of the region sing. —The Economist (London)
“A fascinating modern telling of Barents’s expedition.” —Wall Street Journal
“[An] enthralling, elemental, and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance.” —Daily Mail (London)
“Richly descriptive…For these explorers, it was as if they had visited another planet, a hostile place of alien creatures and otherworldly horrors.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Enriched by her own adventurous sojourns in the Arctic, Andrea Pitzer brings Barents’ three harrowing expeditions to vivid life—while giving us fascinating insights into one of history’s most intrepid navigators.” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author
“A visceral, thrilling account full of tantalizing surprises.” —Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal
Author
Author Bio: Andrea Pitzer
Andrea Pitzer is the author of three critically acclaimed works of nonfiction, Icebound, One Long Night, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. As a journalist, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Outside, The Daily Beast, Vox, and Slate, among other publications. She received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and later studied at MIT and Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Titles by Author
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 9.31 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
To listen to this title you will need our latest app
Due to publishing rights this title requires DRM and can only be listened to in the Blackstone Wholesale app
To listen to this title you will need our latest app