Ice Bears and Kotick: Rowing on Top of the World - Softcover

Webb, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574092642 ISBN 13: 9781574092646

Publisher: Sheridan House, 2008

Synopsis

Fans of sailing and nautical adventuring will relish Ice Bears and Kotick, a true story of a boat journey sailing and rowing through the ice pack. Their many survival challenges and sailing adventures will appeal to any small-boat sailor and to any library catering to true adventure readers, with its 'you are there' high-impact moments of encounters with icebergs and wildlife alike

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Review

This is the story of two men's epic journey in an open boat and the first circumnavigation of the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. This is a real adventure for anyone who ever wanted to run away to sea.--Latitudes & Attitudes

Fans of sailing and nautical adventuring will relish Ice Bears and Kotick, a true story of a boat journey sailing and rowing through the ice pack. Their many survival challenges and sailing adventures will appeal to any small-boat sailor and to any library catering to true adventure readers, with its 'you are there' high-impact moments of encounters with icebergs and wildlife alike--California Bookwatch

Author Peter Webb and his friend, known only as Shaggy, set a record by rowing and sailing around the island of Spitsbergen, Norway. The pair's almost unbelievable 696-mile Arctic circumnavigation makes for an exceptional story. Named after a white seal in Kipling's The Jungle Book, KOTICK is a 17-foot clinker-built Norwegian boat made of wide pine planks and outfitted with two sets of oars, a mast, and a sail. Judging from the men's misadventures, the boat was certainly as seaworthy as a seal. Despite their youth, they planned for contingencies. A packet boat deposited supplies at strategic points around the island. Stops in areas frequented by ice bears included a strong shelter. Weather couldn't be planned for, however. Wind, rain and snow and the movement of ice could make or break the expedition. If this well-written story won t cool you off on a hot summer s day, nothing will.--The Ensign

From the Author

"Ice Bears and Kotick" is a sailing narrative with many events and an extraordinary variety of ice. It's a low budget story about what happens when you put everything into one big adventure. Through it all the important journey is the internal one. It might appeal to gap year students, lovers of ice and snow, lovers of Arctic wildlife, small boat sailors and oarsmen. Having said that, some who have loved the book were none of these things. So I think that it's for anybody who can remember being young, and identify with the need to go out into the world to do something big or special or impossible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574092642
• ISBN 13: 9781574092646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272