On thin ice
Months of polar darkness. Disease slowly eating men from within while predators stalked them in snow and ice.
tells the story of sailors stranded for the winter more than 400 years ago on Nova Zembla, an archipelago in the frigid sea above what is today Siberia. With William Barents as navigator, the Dutch sent an expedition north each year from 1594 to 1596. Their mission: discover a northeastern passage over Europe and Asia that could serve as a trade route to
