Dancing on Ice A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk and Reckless Folly

Name: Dancing on Ice A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk and Reckless Folly
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ISBN: 9781905847501

ISBN-10: 1905847505

ISBN-13: 9781905847501

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jeremy Scott

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In 1930, charismatic Gino Watkins led a group of fourteen men (including the author's father) to the Arctic. It was the dawn of commercial air travel, and their goal was to discover an air route between Europe and America.The explorers were courageous and physically strong, but they were unprepared for the hostile conditions they would face over the next year. Learning from their Inuit guides, they hunted for seals and passed the long dark nights of winter as best they could. But for one man, August Courtauld-alone on the ice cap and cut off from his fellow explorers for six long months-it would be an unbelievably harrowing experience.Jeremy Scott paints an enthralling portrait of two lost…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Old Street Publishing
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction


Buried Alive


Blank On The Map


The Jazz Age


The Quest


Dancing The Charleston on Ice


The Land That God Gave Cain


The Ice Cap


Well, I'D Eat You


Who in This World is Really Happy?


Sexual Selection


Do What is Customary


On the Ice Cap


The Prisoner


Fear and Madness in Perpetual Night


The Media Pile In


Tell God to Stop the Whale Coming in on a Sunday


Going Native


Unnecessary as The Dead


Too Close to the Edge


Stoic Code


Note on Sources


Acknowledgements