Arctic scholar and voyager John R. Bockstoce here recounts 10 passages he made into northern latitudes during the 1990s in his sturdy motor-sailor Belvedere. From Svalbard, north of Norway, to Scotland and the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Labardor-as well as a trip through the Northwest Passage with William Simon-Bockstoce and his crews tracked the courses of Norse voyagers, Irish monks, English and Dutch whalers, Inuit hunters, European explorers, and German submariners in this exciting account of human activity and natural phenomena in the frozen North. Every turn ventures into the world of Eirik the Red and the other Norse adventurers in whose wake he sails. -- John Rousmaniere author of "After the Storm" His writing evokes the grandeur and the cold to a point where the reader is at risk of frostbite. -- Hugh Downs author of "My America" Not many men can claim to have navigated the Northwest Passage by native skin boat, but Bocstoce has. -- Steve Thomas host of This Old House John R. Bockstoce, Arctic historian and archaeologist, has been travelling and working in the North since 1962. He has carried out a series of excavations at Bering Strait, served for ten seasons at Point Hope, Alaska, as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, and made three traverses of the Northwest Passage. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the Arctic, including the award-winning Whales, Ice and Men. The University of Alaska recently conferred on him an honorary degree fo Doctor of Science in recognition of his contributions to Arctic Study. Used Book in Good Condition