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274 pages : 24 cm "Benedict Allen is often referred to as 'a cat who has lost six of his nine lives'." "Aged twenty-two, he set off into the Amazon, and, fleeing through the forest after an attack by gold-miners, he was forced to eat his dog to survive; since then he has been shot at, endured weeks alone in desert and rainforest, been poisoned, and has had to sew up his own wound with a needle and thread from his boot-mending kit." "In 2003 he trained a team of hardened icedogs' and headed into the remotest corner of Siberia to cross the ice of the Bering Strait alone, unarmed and without backup of any kind; as problems began to pile up, he and his ten faithful dogs found themselves heading ever northward through frozen tundra and pack ice, and on a night of sub-zero temperatures they plummeted off a cliff." "As he fell into the abyss, Allen asked himself: why do explorers put themselves in such dangerous situations? And - once the worst possible situation occurs - how do they find the resources to survive?" "In answering these questions, Allen weaves a series of tales from his own experiences driving a dogsled across the ice-bridge linking Siberia with North America, as well as th
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Allen, Benedict
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571223954
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Fiction, Travel
- Rating
- 3.48 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14