Arctic Adventure by Peter Freuchen Paperback Book 9781626549999

Shortly after his death in 1957 The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that quotexcept for Richard E Byrd and despite his foreign beginnings Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our timequot During his lifetime Freuchens remarkable adventures related in his books magazine articles and films made him a legend In 1910 Freuchen and his friend and business partner Knud Rasmussen the renowned polar explorer founded Thulea Greenland Inuit trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole Freuchen lived in Thule for fifteen years adopting ways of its natives He married an Inuit woman and together they had two children Freuchen went on many expeditions quite a few of which he barely survived suffering frostbite snow blindness and starvation Near the North Pole there is no such thing as an easy and safe outing In Arctic Adventure Freuchen writes of polar bear hunts of meeting Eskimos who had resorted to cannibalism during a severe famine and of the thrill of seeing the sun after three months of winter darkness Trained as a journalist before he headed north Freuchen is a fine writer and great storyteller...