WANDERLUST: An eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age, by Reid Mitenbuler (HarperCollins, $39.99)
What’s an explorer to do after their last mountain has been climbed? That’s the question that haunts Wanderlust, Reid Mitenbuler’s fine new biography of Danish Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen, whose intrepid career was cut short by a gruesome injury, forcing him to reinvent himself several times over.
Outside of Denmark, Freuchen isn’t quite a household