{"product_id":"against-the-ice-the-classic-arctic-survival-story","title":"Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ( Game of Thrones )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as  Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity.  Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53058646606111,"sku":"A8726","price":8.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/0546\/5119\/files\/81BQBZr8ioL._SX1500.jpg?v=1792837164","url":"https:\/\/lumobook.store\/products\/against-the-ice-the-classic-arctic-survival-story","provider":"LumoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}