Recently, I read a harrowing account of a doomed 1912 Arctic expedition, where a ship seeking new hunting grounds became frozen in the pack ice of the Kara Sea. After a year and a half, the author and 13 crewmen decided to leave the ship and the remaining crew, embarking on a perilous 235-mile journey for help via kayaks and homemade sledges, and complete with polar bear attacks, starvation, snowblindness, and mutiny. The book is called In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov, and it’s a great read for high school classes and above.
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