Mirage In The Arctic The Astounding 1907 Mikkelsen Expedition

One of the last great northern sledging expeditions as well as a first-hand account of the Alaska gold rush. "Mikkelsen's description of his 2,500-mile journey in Mirage in the Arctic has a rollicking, novelistic quality: now our hero has a hairsbreadth escape from a rising tide, now he's entrusted with a $40,000 bag of gold, now he finds the frozen corpses of some prospectors, and now he meets a proverbial pistol-packin' mama. Such incidents almost make you forget that his epic trip was scarcely less demanding than a traverse of the Greenland Ice Cap or a crossing of the Sahara. His devil-may-care attitude toward danger suggests an Indiana Jones of the Arctic. And like his Hollywood counterpart, Mikkelsen felt most at home when he was farthest from home."-from the Introduction Ejnar Mikkelsen, born in 1880, was one of the foremost Arctic explorers of the twentieth century. As a person who thrived on risk, he often seems like a prototype for today's devotees of "extreme adventure." He died in 1971 at the age of ninety.Mikkelsen, Ejnar is the author of 'Mirage In The Arctic The Astounding 1907 Mikkelsen Expedition', published 2005 under ISBN 9781592286713 and ISBN 1592286712.