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In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.

The human story has always been one of perseverance—often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger, and endless winter.

In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration—a time of hope, adventure, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin.

“A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope” (The New Yorker), Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below, the history of mutiny, the art of celestial navigation, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage.
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“A gripping adventure tale that deserves an honored place in the long bookshelf of volumes dealing with arctic shipwrecks, winter ordeals, and survival struggles.”
—Boston Globe

"A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope."
—The New Yorker

“A fascinating modern telling of Barents’s expeditions….Ms. Pitzer presents a compelling narrative situated in the context of Dutch imperial ambition. She writes vividly about the ‘unnerving isolation’ of venturing north and east of Scandinavia into uncharted waters.”
—Wall Street Journal

“The expedition’s highlight reel included everything a polar fan could want: hand-to-hand combat with polar bears and walruses; scurvy and vitamin A poisoning; asphyxiation by carbon dioxide; frostbite, keelhauling and hangings; plus the sighting of a rare atmospheric optical phenomenon called a parhelion…Pitzer writes with care about the Arctic landscape Barents encountered…A reminder that there was once a time when things were unknown.”
—New York Times Book Review

“The name of William Barents isn’t that familiar to us these days beyond perhaps a line of type on your atlas… but this enthralling, elemental and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance should change all that.”
—Daily Mail (UK)

“The stuff of castaway movies…Pitzer does a fine job of telling this gripping adventure, painting a convincing portrait of an obsessive who put his life on the line for glory and knowledge—and succumbed.”
—The Guardian

“Dramatic and dire…[the men]fight off polar bears that rear up from nowhere, attacking until they are slaughtered or driven away. The ship tacks endlessly and desperately to escape floating ‘mountains of steel’…Ms. Pitzer’s descriptions of the region sing.”
—The Economist

“Narratives of frozen beards in polar hinterlands never lose their appeal. Most of the good stories have been told, but in Icebound Andrea Pitzer fills a gap, at least for the popular reader in English, with the story of the 16th-century Dutch mariner William Barents….Elegant.”
—The Spectator

“Richly descriptive…The real grip of the book lies in the horrendous dangers and hardships endured by Barents and his shipmates, and the determination with which they met them... For these explorers, it was as if they had visited another planet, a hostile place of alien creatures and otherworldly horrors.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Andrea Pitzer does a fine job of telling this gripping adventure, painting a convincing portrait of an obsessive who put his life on the line for glory and knowledge—and succumbed.”
—The Observer (UK)

“A masterful re-creation of a desperate fight for survival [that] takes us back nearly half a millennium and plunks us down in a vividly realized world…More than just another book about a disastrous sea voyage, this is a richly evocative story about a particular period in the history of exploration. Icebound deserves a place beside such classics as Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage and Roland Huntford’s The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundson's Race to the South Pole.”
—Booklist (starred review)

“Pitzer’s narrative vividly conveys tension and terror. A meticulously researched history of maritime tragedy.”
—Kirkus Reviews

"Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in many ways the greatest polar explorer of them all. In this engrossing narrative of the Far North, enriched by her own adventurous sojourns in the Arctic, Andrea Pitzer brings Barents’ three harrowing expeditions to vivid life—while giving us fascinating insights into one of history's most intrepid navigators."
—Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice

“Who knew that William Barents’s 16th-century journeys so strongly influenced the great 19th-century arctic expeditions? Andrea Pitzer’s visceral, thrilling account is full of such tantalizing surprises, a delight on every level.”
—Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal

“Buried in snow, besieged by ice, and hunted by ravenous polar bears, explorer William Barents and his Dutch shipmates, seeking a northern trade route to the Far East, found themselves trapped in an epic battle for survival in the unknown, ice-locked Arctic. Andrea Pitzer’s worthy and superb account keeps us enthralled to the last chilling word.”
—Dean King, nationally bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara and The Feud

“The bone-chilling tale of a legendary journey in which survival depended on leadership, teamwork, and superhuman endurance—as well as the ability to outpace and out-battle icebergs and polar bears….A masterwork of narrative nonfiction.”
—Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Frozen in Time and Fall and Rise

“Gives readers a new understanding of the phrase uncharted territory…. Methodically researched and elegantly told.”
—Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

"An enchantment. Pitzer expertly draws the reader into landscapes so unfamiliar and unsettling that they may as well be stolen from science fiction….[Features] ordeals that—to today’s readers—can seem nearly unimaginable.”
—Steve Silberman, author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

“Page after page, Pitzer puts you inside one of the greatest adventures you’ll ever encounter. Beyond thrilling. Beyond enthralling. I found this a tale so involving that I simply couldn’t put it down.”
—Martin W. Sandler, author of the National Book Award finalist 1919 and The Impossible Rescue

"Stunning…shines with the glitter of sun reflecting off polar ice, auroral light shimmering in the night sky, and—mostly—the sheer, stubborn power of the undaunted human spirit."
—Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

"Fascinating, bizarre, and very human…A riveting account of lives drawn into a world that seems at once dream and nightmare."
—Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

“An epic tale of exploration, daring, and tragedy told by a fine historian—and a wonderful writer.”
—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“In Icebound Andrea Pitzer has accomplished something unique—she presents the daily lives of the early Dutch Arctic explorers with such precision and clarity that the reader becomes as immersed in the rawness of their experiences as one could ever imagine. Through unflinching detail, she describes the struggle for survival faced by three separate expeditions seeking a northeast passage from Europe to China (one of those voyages culminating in being marooned for months in the frozen north). Without sentimentality, she describes the perseverance and selfless sacrifice of the men involved, which allows a glimpse into the true nature of human courage. This is a book you will not want to put down, except to catch your breath.”
—William E. Glassley, author of A Wilder Time: Notes From a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice

“Andrea Pitzer accomplishes for William Barents what the explorer could not do for himself: rescue his amazing life from the grip of the Arctic and centuries of hagiography. The Barents who appears in Pitzer’s spyglass seems impressively close to the actual man: intensely bold, highly skilled, and catastrophically wrong.”
—P.J. Capelotti, author of The Greatest Show in the Arctic

About the Author

Andrea Pitzer is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Outside, The Daily Beast, Vox, and Slate, among other publications. She has authored two previous books, One Long Night and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov—both critically acclaimed. She received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1994, and later studied at MIT and Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She grew up in West Virginia and currently lives with her family near Washington, DC. Icebound is her most recent work.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner (January 18, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982113359
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982113353
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.38 inches
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Andrea Pitzer is the author of ICEBOUND: SHIPWRECKED AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, the story of William Barents' three voyages to the Arctic in the 1590s. Published by Scribner in January 2021, ICEBOUND was featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and received a starred review from Booklist. Her second book, ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Little, Brown, 2017), covers the wrenching story of mass civilian detention from the 1890s to the present. It received a starred review from Kirkus and was named a top history book of the year by Smithsonian Magazine. Her first book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Pegasus, 2013), received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal.

Andrea's writing has appeared many places in print and online, from the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Outside, the Daily Beast, GQ, Vox, Slate, and USA Today to Longreads, Lapham's Quarterly, and McSweeney's. She founded Nieman Storyboard, the narrative nonfiction site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Find her on Twitter at @andreapitzer, like her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/andreapitzerauthor/, and visit her website at http://www.andreapitzer.com.

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This is a highly entertaining tale of survival, even if the prose style isn't always lyrical.I bought this book because the premise -- Arctic exploration gone wrong in the 1590s -- was about a series of voyages I had never heard about before. Perhaps this might be different for international readers, but Dutch sailing history is not much on the radar for American readers, myself included. This was a book that stood out to me when I was browsing for something new to read.Without divulging much about the story, I devoured this within the course of a weekend; indeed, I found "Icebound" to be a good companion beside my Adirondack campfire. As a piece of writing, however, it is a lackluster work -- competent, but not compelling. The strength of the book is the story itself, which is so remarkable that I'm surprised it took me this long to learn anything about it.As I read the book, I did wonder if other approaches to this material might have been more effective. I can't say with certainty, since this was effectively my first exposure to the story of William Barents, but I did get the strong sense from cover to cover that I was reading a modern paraphrasing of the logs and journals kept by those people who experienced these events.To her credit, the author didn't embellish the story or try to imagine the personalities of those who lived it; "Icebound" makes no attempt to get inside the head of Barents, since history records so few details about him. Occasionally, she does try to contextualize the story by drawing comparisons to Arctic and Antarctic adventures that came much later.On the other hand, it's not clear how the reader benefits from all those trips to Nova Zembla (Novaya Zemlya) the author made herself as "research," since so little of that personal experience shows in the main body of the book. The writing is so strictly matter-of-fact that I strongly suspect this book might be better received if the author simply provided an annotated translation of the original journals, rather than trying to rewrite them in her own words. By modern standards, all those polar bear encounters become painfully repetitive; if we were reading the original journal and log entries translated into contemporary English, this would be book with more academic value.All that being said, I certainly enjoyed the book so much I bought a second copy as a gift for a friend.
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Enjoyable account of guts for glory.Makes me realize I would never make a polar explorer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Polar Exploration History Worth Knowing
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021
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I loved this book, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World. Interesting, yet imperfect, I learned so much about a subject I don’t recall ever reading. If I have read about it (I read a lot about polar exploration), it never made much of an impression. This book sure did! William Barents, a Dutch navigator and explorer, set out in 1594 to find a northeast passage to China via the Arctic on behalf of his country, on the cusp of the Netherlands becoming the dominant naval force in the world. On three separate voyages, he encounters dangers and hardships that test the crew’s physical state, mental state and loyalty. It’s hard to imagine the courage of these men, with the limited resources they had. Longitude had not yet been determined; Michelangelo had died only 30 years before! Yet they navigated through Arctic waters, facing huge icebergs, constant attacks from polar bears, and enduring deadly scurvy. We cannot even begin to appreciate what they endured. This monumental survival story is must-reading for any fan of polar exploration, and Andrea Pitzer does a superb job of bringing this story alive with a blow-by-blow account of the voyages, while bringing a sincere human element to the men’s suffering.

Even more impressive is Pitzer’s personal travel to Nova Zembla, Barent’s last destination, to see his winter cabin, to experience herself the landscape and weather they faced. I appreciated this section of the book very much and admire her tenacity.

I understand some of the other reviewers’ critiques: yes, there is a lack of source material. But, it’s 1594. It’s amazing, given their harrowing struggle to survive a year in the Arctic, that any journals were kept. Yes, it gets tedious at times: Sept 2, Sept 5, Sept 11... it sounds like a recitation of the journals. Lots and lots of polar bears. Not much variation in action. But this was their actual life; it’s not fiction. Sometimes Pitzer veers off to discuss other polar explorers. While this can side-step the flow of the story, I found it very interesting to be reminded of other explorations and history. And for those animal lovers who abhorred the men killing animals... what do you think animals themselves do to survive in the Arctic? Pitzer portrays real life, real survival, by a Dutch group of explorers who put their lives at risk, and suffered mightily, not just for the glory of the Netherlands, but for expanding our knowledge of our own planet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awe-inspiring adventure story
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This is a page-turner of an Arctic adventure/survival story, with vivid descriptions of the land, sea, and, most of all, the endless crushing ice. The Barents expeditions searched the High Arctic for a northeast passage between Europe and China in the closing years of the 16th century. Their voyages were filled with wonders and hardships, even before Barents' ship was trapped by ice at the far northern edge of Nova Zembla, when the adventure truly begins. Frequent near-death encounters with polar bears frame moments of beauty and mystery, such as the Arctic sunrise that stunned the expedition when it arrived several weeks before the expected end of the polar night. (The phenomenon was only fully understood in 1979, when it was named the Novaya Zemlya effect.)

I have read almost every Arctic (and Antarctic) survival story written or translated into English, and this is the best I've read yet. It weaves the nail-biting drama of surviving in a hostile world of ice and sea and stone together with the larger historical context driving that exploration: the expansion of empires and the cruelty and exploitation that came with them. At the same time, the reader can still enjoy the sense of awe and discovery of exploring a new and unknown domain, filled with strange people, cryptic monuments, and fearful wildlife.

If you'd like to learn more about the research that went into this book, the author wrote a gorgeous story about the Arctic sailing trip she took to Nova Zembla, published in Outside Magazine as "My Mid-Life Crisis as a Russian Sailor." For various reasons, I can't visit the Arctic myself, but this story made me feel like I'd actually been there, more than anything else I've read.

Bottom line: if you enjoy a well-written adventure story with the depth and detail that comes from serious research, hit the order button now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An unexpected delight!
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As far as I am concerned, Icebound is an absolute triumph of a non-fiction novel.

Going into this book, I did not know a single thing about William Barents or any Dutch explorers (nor did I care). Not only does Pitzer offer interesting and detailed accounts of the various explorations, their purposes, their methods, and the results, she contextualizes what these voyages meant for the people involved and the culture of their home country. And she all of this with a voice including such gems as <i>"He was the patron saint of devoted error, living the consequences of his mistakes."</i>

Not only is the writing informative and delightful, so are the characters. Some other comments mention frustration with the explorers "stupidity," but their genuinely ignorant attempts to survive this uncharted territory create some superb ironic humor and bizarre choices that effectively keeps away some of the stagnation common to non-fiction when the primary and secondary sources get a little dry. It's amazing to consider how far science has come and hilarious to see the dichotomy of sailors who can do complex astronomical geometry but did not think to bring winter coats.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting non fiction work
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While there were times this NF work read like a research paper and took a bit to get into, I did like it. I read it like a story and didn’t try to keep all the names straight. It is a factual account of a historical event and as such there is not a lot of emotions expressed by people in the book. It is still possible to envision their possible emotions during their struggles but they are not explicitly written as the account is sourced from a captains log. If you like reading about risk takers and areas of the world that you haven’t visited this book will appeal to those interests
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
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I heard the author talk about her book on cbc and knew it would be a story worth reading.l was,nt disappointed.The author did a great job keeping the story moving.If you like survival stories, this one stands out above all others. You wont be disappoited.
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Part novel. Part historical record. Don’t worry about taking it too seriously either way. This is an entertaining read. Those who dislike tales of violence against animals (often unnecessarily as per the book) are cautioned against reading.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting read
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