Andrea Wulf and Peter Stark
A new book always requires advance blurbs from other authors and it can sometimes be an exhausting process to get them. I was fortunate this time to get he endorsement of two fine authors whose books I admire, Andrea Wulf and Peter Stark. Here is what they had to say:
"'A rip-roaring tale of adventures, hardship, sacrifice, human hubris and - dare I say – madness –... set in inhospitable landscapes and told with breezy energy. Wonderful."
– ANDREA WULF author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World
A gifted chronicler of Northern exploration, Stephen Bown tells this incredible tale with grace, authority, and a deep grasp of its significance."
– PETER STARK, author of Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire
"Bown has done an exceptional job in telling the compelling tale of one of the world's greatest and most tragic maritime expeditions ... a largely forgotten story of an incredible Russian seafaring endeavour in the early eighteenth century, as well as the depth of human despair and perseverance in the name of exploration and science."
– JAMES P. DELGADO, author of Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
"'A rip-roaring tale of adventures, hardship, sacrifice, human hubris and - dare I say – madness –... set in inhospitable landscapes and told with breezy energy. Wonderful."
– ANDREA WULF author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World
A gifted chronicler of Northern exploration, Stephen Bown tells this incredible tale with grace, authority, and a deep grasp of its significance."
– PETER STARK, author of Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire
"Bown has done an exceptional job in telling the compelling tale of one of the world's greatest and most tragic maritime expeditions ... a largely forgotten story of an incredible Russian seafaring endeavour in the early eighteenth century, as well as the depth of human despair and perseverance in the name of exploration and science."
– JAMES P. DELGADO, author of Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
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