Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World is an account of William Barents's three expeditions to search for a Northeast Passage.[1][2] According to The New York Times author Andrea Pitzer had access to the surviving journals of members of the expeditions, and went on multiple scientific expeditions to the region.
References
- ↑ Rachel Slade (2021-01-08). "‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/books/review/icebound-andrea-pitzer.html. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "She also had access to enviable sources to reconstruct the story, including Barents’s own ship’s log; the journals of Jan Huygen van Linschoten — a cartographer who published Portuguese trade-route secrets he’d memorized while serving in India; and the diary of the ship’s officer Gerrit de Veer, who accompanied Barents and perished on the way home during the third expedition."
- ↑ Rich Fisher (2021-02-25). ""Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World"". Public Radio Tulsa. Archived from the original on 2021-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20210311180101/https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/icebound-shipwrecked-edge-world#stream/0. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "As was noted by The Wall Street Journal: 'A fascinating modern telling of Barents's expeditions.... Ms. Pitzer presents a compelling narrative situated in the context of Dutch imperial ambition...'"
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