schopflin's review
4.0
Like other polar adventure books by professional explorers, this is all about the action, and while it incorporates history, isn't very reflective. I kept finding myself wanting some retrospective thoughts at the end of each quest but, like a very annoying romance, it ends each time he reaches his goal or is rescued. Given that it collects a number of cold-weather adventures about which he has written elsewhere, it could at least have had some final musings on what he has learned from his chilly travel. Having said which, I really enjoyed it, found it a pageturner. I largely read this under the weather in bed and enjoyed the contrast (while wondering how he ever came out alive).
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