The Frozen Ship.The Frozen Ship Sarah Moss Blue Bridge c/o United Tribes Media, Inc. 240 West 35th Street, Suite 500, NY, NY 10001 1933346035 $24.95 www.bluebridgebooks.com Sarah Moss (Lecturer in American and English literature English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. ) presents The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration polar exploration: see Antarctica; Arctic, the. presents true stories of Arctic and Antarctic voyagers who dared to make dangerous and often fatal journeys to the icebound ice·bound adj. Locked in or covered over by ice. Adj. 1. icebound - locked in by ice; "icebound harbors" frozen - turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; poles. Chronicling explorers, missionaries, and archaeologists ranging from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to modern-day scientists, The Frozen Ship also reflects upon morbid global cultural fascination with expeditions that went horribly wrong, and the powerfully romanticized appeal of the frozen polar landscapes and the drive to plant flags in ice. A skillfully skill·ful adj. 1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert. See Synonyms at proficient. 2. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill. researched and smoothly presented chronicle of man versus nature throughout the centuries. |
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