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

Scott,Jeremy

ISBN 10: 1905847505 / ISBN 13: 9781905847501

Published by Old Street Publishing, London, 2008

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A Near Fine Copy of this Book in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.This is a lovely clean tight copy and the dust-jacket comes well protected in a cover sleeve,Gino Watkins expedition to the Arctic 8vo 246pp First Edition 1st Impression [2008].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dancing On Ice A Stirring Tale of Adventure,Risk and Reckless Folly
• Publisher: Old Street Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905847505
• ISBN 13: 9781905847501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • TRAVEL/TRANSPORT

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Synopsis

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 worlds: the Inuit hunters of the polar regions and the “Brideshead” generation of young Englishmen. His action-packed and lyrical tale is one of triumph and tragedy, where innocence and optimism come face to face with devastating extremes of mental and physical endurance.

The storms were a bombardment, an assault on the frail shelter protecting them, a sustained battering on the nerves and mind. . . . They were enduring it together, but what must it be like to suffer it alone? The Eskimos believed white devils whirled and shrieked within the blizzards, but what vile monsters might solitude give birth to in one man alone? Unadmitted and undiscussed, at the back of all their minds crouched the horror that Courtauld might go mad.

About the Author

Jeremy Scott was born into a family of dysfunctional risk-addicts. After a colourful (and highly successful) career in one of London's top advertising agencies, described in his memoir Fast and Louche, he became a full-time writer.