Ice!

The author of The Incredible Voyage sets out on a “simply tremendous” and death-defying adventure sailing through the Arctic Ocean ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he spends a full week digging himself out of enormous snow drifts until he is able to be seen and rescued. This incident kicks off a series of impossible adventures as he voyages to the treacherous waters of the North Pole. His second winter at sea finds him trapped in an enormous ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. For 366 days he is marooned on the craft. As he faces his loneliness and the possibility of his own death under the dazzling Northern lights, Tristan Jones's incomparable sailing adventure reaches an unimaginable climax. ICE! is a classic tale of adventure, its author acclaimed by Time magazine as "someone Lindbergh would have understood". Cover Title Page Acknowledgments Author’s Postscript to the Sailors Bookshelf Edition Part I - Vidi (I saw) Epigraph Chapter 1 - August 1952 Epigraph Chapter 2 - Free! Epigraph Chapter 3 - Entertaining the Ladies Epigraph Chapter 4 - Faith, Hope, and—Luck! Epigraph Chapter 5 - Master and Mate - 1958 Epigraph Chapter 6 - God Helps Those What Helps Themselves! Epigraph Chapter 7 - Watch the Wall, My Darling! Part II - Veni (I came) Epigraph Chapter 8 - The Irish Islands Epigraph Chapter 9 - The Old Times Epigraph Chapter 10 - The Next Parish to America Epigraph Chapter 11 - One the Track of Columcille Epigraph Chapter 12 - Behold, the Hebrides! Epigraph Chapter 13 - Background to the Saga Part III - Vici (I Conquered) Epigraph Chapter 14 - A Rough Passage Epigraph Chapter 15 - Around Iceland Single-Handed Epigraph Chapter 16 - Mysterious, Misnamed, and Misunderstood Greenland Epigraph Chapter 17 - Tooth and Nail, Head-On! Epigraph Chapter 18 - Alone on the Ice Epigraph Chapter 19 - Trapped! Epigraph Chapter 20 - Safe and Sound Epigraph Chapter 21 - Across the Arctic Ocean Epigraph Chapter 22 - In the Arctic Icecap Epigraph Chapter 23 - An Embarrassing Predicament Epigraph Chapter 24 - Under the Ice Epigraph Chapter 25 - By the Skin of My Teeth Epigraph