The Devil's Labyrinth : Encounters with the Arctic

Johnson, Clive

ISBN 10: 1853102113 / ISBN 13: 9781853102110

Published by Swan Hill, Shrewsbury, 1995

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144 PP. A blend of Polar history and the unique attempt to struggle against the strong southerly drift just north of Henrietta Island off Northern Siberia, then get on to the Transpolar Drift Stream and use it to reach the Pole.

Seller Inventory # 013335

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil's Labyrinth : Encounters with the Arctic
• Publisher: Swan Hill, Shrewsbury
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853102113
• ISBN 13: 9781853102110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Polar

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Synopsis

The North Pole has been reached by many people in many ways. But to contemplate traveling across the drifting ice on foot, hauling sledges loaded with enough food, fuel & equipment to sustain life for 100 days, requires men with a rare strain of polar madness. Contending with unseasonable & cripplingly cold temperatures, plus the debilitating pain of frostbite & young thin ice cracking up all around them, they knew that the slightest error of judgment would probably kill them. But there was always the intoxicating wildness & beauty of it all, the thrill of the challenge & their own indomitable wills to keep them going. Color photos.