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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
Four Against the Arctic Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
Author: David Roberts
While reading Valerian Albanov's In the Land of White Death, David Roberts came across the mention of an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive six years stranded on a barren island in the high Arctic. Incredulous, Roberts -- an expert on exploration literature who had never heard of this account -- was ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743272315
ISBN-10: 0743272315
Publication Date: 8/30/2005
Pages: 320
Edition: Reprint
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2.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This is the kind of book I love to read in the coldest part of winter. I saved this for just that season.
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reviewed Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World on + 3352 more book reviews
The brief history of the sailors who were shipwrecked in the arctic in the 1700s is used as a basis to describe the authors adventure in researching the history.
reviewed Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World on + 496 more book reviews
Interesting story, but the author spends too much time talking about getting the research and very little about the actual event. But since it happened so long ago there was not much of an account given for him to go on.


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