In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

The Soviets’ schemes were, depending on your perspective, even more farsighted or more off-the-wall. In a book titled Can Man Change the Climate? an engineer named Petr Borisov suggested melting the Arctic ice cap with a dam across the Bering Strait. Hundreds of cubic miles’ worth of cold water could then, somehow or other, be pumped from the Arcti

Antarctica was beautiful—even Joe, who loathed it with every fiber of his being as the symbol, the embodiment, the blank unmeaning heart of his impotence in this war, had felt the thrill and grandeur of the Ice. But it was trying, at every moment you remained on it, to kill you. They could not let their guard down for a moment; they had all known t

Bowheads avoided extinction not because a new space opened in the accounting ledger to tally their worth alive. They survived because, in the world outside the strait, they ceased to have value at all.