{"product_id":"against-the-ice","title":"Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (\u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEjnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary's outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition's boat needed repair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeveral months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNikolaj Coster-Waldau, who co-adapted the book into a screenplay, provides the foreword to this new edition of the classic exploration memoir, which was one of The Explorer's Club's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published as \u003ci\u003eTwo Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity. \u003c\/i\u003eTranslated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44458095444105,"sku":"9781586423346","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/imageloader_3c8550a2-d804-4983-bede-508c646616d2.jpg?v=1780861864","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/against-the-ice","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}