High Latitude, North Atlantic: 30,000 Miles Through Cold Seas and History - Softcover

Bockstoce, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939510820 ISBN 13: 9780939510825

Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2003

Synopsis

Arctic scholar and voyage John Bockstoce here recounts 10 passages he made into northern latitudes during the 1990s in his sturdy motor-sailer Belvedere. From Svalbard, north of Norway, to Scotland and the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador-as well as a trip through the Northwest passage with William Simon-Bookstoce and his crews tracked the courses of Norse voyagers, and German submariners in this exciting account of human activity and natural phenomena in the frozen north.

About this title

About the Author:

John R. Bockstoce, Arctic historian and archaeologist, has been travelling and working in the North since 1962. He has carried out a series of excavations at Bering Strait, served for ten seasons at Point Hope, Alaska, as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, and made three traverses of the Northwest Passage. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the Arctic, including the award-winning Whales, Ice and Men. The University of Alaska recently conferred on him an honorary degree fo Doctor of Science in recognition of his contributions to Arctic Study.

Review:

Every turn ventures into the world of Eirik the Red and the other Norse adventurers in whose wake he sails. -- John Rousmaniere author of "After the Storm"

His writing evokes the grandeur and the cold to a point where the reader is at risk of frostbite. -- Hugh Downs author of "My America"

Not many men can claim to have navigated the Northwest Passage by native skin boat, but Bocstoce has. -- Steve Thomas host of This Old House

About this edition

• Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0939510820
• ISBN 13: 9780939510825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240