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Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story
Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story
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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Journalist Andrea Pitzer discusses her latest book Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, which recounts the Arctic ordeal of Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew. In 1597, they set sail in a bid to find a North East passage to China, but spent nine months fighting off ravenous polar bears, extreme cold and a seemingly endless winter after becoming stranded in the ice.
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Released:
Mar 1, 2021
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