Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica - Softcover

Shapiro, Deborah; Bjelke, Rolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071353224 ISBN 13: 9780071353229

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

An account of this team's journey, with their forty-foot sailboat home, from Sweden to the Antarctic

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Review:

In 1989, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke willingly set sail for a land of ice and snow. Their goal (reminiscent of the Age of Exploration): to captain a 40-foot sailboat, the Northern Light, from Sweden to the Antarctic Peninsula and back, and overwinter in one of the earth's most beautiful yet inhospitable places. During the 28,000-nautical-mile trip, they endured battering seas, treacherous ice flows, and complete isolation while frozen at the bottom of the world. Time on Ice is the result of their struggles and ultimate achievement. In alternating chapters, the married coauthors recount a remarkable three-year odyssey that peaks with their interment in an Antarctic winter. But the awe-inspiring vistas, seldom-seen wildlife, and personal discoveries far outweigh the dangers. This is a fascinating journey to one of the world's wildest and loneliest places.

From the Back Cover:

ANTARCTICA: To the early mapmakers it was Terra Incognita, and it remains a remote, brooding presence, more mythic than real, its mystery only deepened by the legendary journeys of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott. Answering the siren's call, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke pushed their sailboat into the depths of an Antarctic winter, accepting complete isolation to experience the sublime majesty of earth's last great wilderness.

TIME ON ICE recounts their three-year, 28,000-mile odyssey, meticulously planned and boldly executed by two experienced and resourceful sailors. Surviving whiteouts, hurricane-force winds, battering seas, and capsizing icebergs, they found what they were seeking: a wild, untamed, yet fragile beauty reserved for the few who can endure it. What they have brought back to share with us is magical.

With color photos by the authors

"Eloquently captures what must be the ultimate in sailing adventures. . . . Time on Ice opens the door to a world that even few sailors will ever experience." --San Diego Log

"Sailors and nonsailors alike will thrill to the armchair adventure awaiting them in Time on Ice."--Portsmouth (NH) Herald

"A story in the pure and enduring spirit of discipline and adventure. Right out of the annals of Slocum and Chichester."--48 Degrees North

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071353224
• ISBN 13: 9780071353229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290