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A review by bethmitcham
Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace
4.0
Not to be spoiler-y, but I have some quibbles with the "survival" part of the subtitle...
This was an exciting and tense description of a polar expedition, with just enough looks at the science and politics of what was going on. There was some foot-shuffling about naming the syphilis one of the officers had contracted (the first time it came up it was a nameless sexually transmitted disease, but later on they got specific) which was the main way to tell this was aimed at youth. I enjoyed the story a lot.
This was an exciting and tense description of a polar expedition, with just enough looks at the science and politics of what was going on. There was some foot-shuffling about naming the syphilis one of the officers had contracted (the first time it came up it was a nameless sexually transmitted disease, but later on they got specific) which was the main way to tell this was aimed at youth. I enjoyed the story a lot.