In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
The book In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic was written by authors David Roberts, Jon Krakauer, Alison Anderson, Valerian Albanov Here you can read free online of In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic a good or bad book?
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First of all we came upon the sort of lead that is normally difficult to cross, and yet we managed to dispatch it with relative ease and advance nearly two miles toward the south. One of the men came with me in my kayak. As soon as we had crossed the channel I disembarked, took a noon sight, and found 82°21´. I could not believe my eyes and immediately suspected an error. But a second calculation confirmed the first result. I had not been mistaken. This was a great surprise, a real Whitsuntide t...reat. And that would not be the only one, for soon the men in the last kayak came to tell me that they had shot a polar bear! This announcement was indeed very welcome news to us all. The last time we had eaten roasted bear had been on board the Saint Anna, around September last year, and today we would again be very gratefully sitting down to a wonderfully plentiful meal—what inexpressible joy! Just as we had been picturing the future with grave concern, good fortune had sent us this “royal dish,”
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