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Fast in the Ice
R. M. Ballantyne
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At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.
In this book he details the lives of the crew as they must overwinter in the frozen north including their meetings with Eskimos and bears and their struggles with disease. This is a realistic account of what life was like for the explorers of the Arctic.
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.
In this book he details the lives of the crew as they must overwinter in the frozen north including their meetings with Eskimos and bears and their struggles with disease. This is a realistic account of what life was like for the explorers of the Arctic.
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Jim Croft’s fear that they would be set fast was realised sooner than he expected. The floes began to close in, from no cause that could be seen, for the wind was quite still, and in a short time the loose ice pressed against the Hope on all sides. It seemed to young Gregory as if the story that the seaman had just related was about to be enacted over again; and, being a stranger to ice, he could not help feeling a lit. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This isn’t my first taste of the Scottish writer, B.M. Ballantyne, but in my opinion it is the best. With many of his other literary works I found his approach pompous, patronizing, arrogant and condescending. This is, no doubt, because his target audience was the young, naïve and highly impressiona
This is another adventure book for early seafaring days except there is little sailing in this book. It is more about the year they spend in the artic with the ship frozen in the ice. They even make contact with a village of natives which brings out a lot of interesting views of natives.
Fast in the Ice; or, Adventures in the Polar Regions, by R. M. Ballyntine (audio book). This short work of fiction is the tale of arctic explorers who winter over in the ice pack, and while attempting to extract themselves the following summer during ice breakup have their shipped crushed by the unp
Too much "remembered" dialogue in this tale for my tastes. But it probably was the style at the time.
This book gave me a deep appreciation for early explorers who went where others dare not go. This small shipload of men was iced-in for the long, dark arctic winter, with very little to sustain them. While there were many awful struggles detailed with matter-of-fact humor, it seems the most difficul