About This Book
A party of sportsmen spends the spring shooting sea-fowl on the packed ice and passing long evenings trading regional stories that illuminate local dialects and customs. When a thaw breaks the floes, four hunters are swept away on an ice-pack and must improvise shelter, food, fire, and rudimentary medicine while navigating shifting bergs and open leads. Interwoven with their drift are detailed, practical accounts of seal habits, the behavior of the ice-fields, and life aboard a sealing steamer, plus encounters with various coastal inhabitants, culminating in their eventual rescue by a passing sealer.
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