Facing the Frozen Ocean - Softcover

Grylls, Bear

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330427075 ISBN 13: 9780330427074

Publisher: Pan Books (UK), 2005

Synopsis

Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous and unpredictable seas in the world. The compelling account of the most recent adventure of the bestselling author of Facing Up. It started out as a carefully calculated attempt to complete the first unassisted crossing of the frozen north Atlantic in a rigid inflatable boat, but it became a terrifying battle against storm-force winds, crashing waves and icebergs as large as cathedrals. Starting from the remote north Canadian coastline, Grylls and his crew crossed the infamous Labrador Sea, pushed on through ice-strewn waters to Greenland and then found themselves isolated in a perfect storm 400 miles from Iceland. Compelling, vivid and inspirational, Facing the Frozen Ocean will appeal to all Bear Grylls' many readers and win him many more

About this title

About the Author:

Bear Grylls spent three years with the British Special Forces. During this time he had a horrendous parachuting accident in southern Africa, breaking his back in three places. Three years later he overcame the odds to become the youngest British climber ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and this story forms the basis for his bestselling memoir,Facing Up. Bear Grylls is one of the most successful motivational speakers on the world circuit.

Review:

"'An epic story of hardship, friendship and faith' Daily Telegraph '[Grylls'] writing allows you to feel you are sitting alongside him on his adventure... I could taste the salt spray in every sentence and the bone numbing chill in every paragraph' Herald Express 'Grylls is certainly proof that the age of great explorers has not completely passed us by.' Scotsman"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0330427075
• ISBN 13: 9780330427074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336