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What is Arctic Adventure; My Life in the Frozen North about?
Shortly after his death in 1957, the New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except 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 time." But 65 years later, most people would ask, "Who was Peter Freuchen?" During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend of the time. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, also a renowned polar explorer, founded Thule - a Greenland Eskimo trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole. Freuchen lived in Thule for fifteen years, adopting ways of it's natives. He married an Eskimo woman, and together they had two children. Freuchen went on many expeditions, quite a few of which he barely survived, suffering frostbite and starvation, even losing one of his feet to the cold. Near the North Pole there was no such thing as an easy and safe outing. In Arctic Adventure Freuchen wrote of polar bear hunts, of meeting Eskimos who had resorted to cannibalism during severe famine, and of the thrill of seeing the
Who reads Arctic Adventure; My Life in the Frozen North?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Freuchen
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart Inc
- Published
- 1935
- Language
- EN
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Travel, Historical Fiction, Historical
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (73 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13