THE NORTH POLE

Extraordinary an elegant travel account a learned history and a psychological thriller wrapped in one ANNE APPLEBAUM Bracing fascinating Why go That masochistic drive is captured with great verve as are the beauty of the Arctic and its terrifying hazards THE TIMES Erling Kagge is a deeply thoughtful writer The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him MICHAEL PALIN The book of a lifetime from a rare writer adventurer whose obsession and passion for his subject know no bounds ELIF SHAFAKThroughout recorded human time few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole This is an otherworldly place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six whole months before setting plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half a year Foot stepping alongside Erling Kagge who ventured to the North Pole in the spring of 1990 we hear the story of the North Pole as never told before From Herodotus who first wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like to the intrepid early cartographers who mapped the world and the legendary expeditions led by Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary the first polar explorer global celebrities who were in the grip of a dangerous obsession to get to the No