{"product_id":"2940013296145","title":"Fast In The Ice","description":"This book describes a visit up to the Arctic regions, that was\u003cbr\u003esupposed to have taken place long before the book was written, in other\u003cbr\u003ewords in the early part of the nineteenth century.  The purpose of the\u003cbr\u003ejourney was to get near to the North Pole, which was considered to be\u003cbr\u003esurrounded by a large area of ice-free water. The vessel in which they\u003cbr\u003esailed became beset by ice, and could not be moved.  They met with\u003cbr\u003eEsquimaux, and saw how they survived, how they killed walrus, how they\u003cbr\u003ecaught birds, and how they lived in their ice-houses, or igloos.  They\u003cbr\u003ealso had several encounters with polar bears, and musk-ox.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually they have been in the ice for a couple of years, and some of\u003cbr\u003ethe men are suffering from scurvy.  Europeans get scurvy from lack of\u003cbr\u003efruit and vegetables, but this condition doesn't seem to affect the\u003cbr\u003eEsquimaux, whose meat and fat diet does not cause them to have heart\u003cbr\u003edisorders, either.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe crew eventually abandon the vessel, which has been crushed suddenly\u003cbr\u003eand totally by a stream of ice-floes, and are obliged to walk out of\u003cbr\u003ewhere they had spent so much time.  Luckily, when at their last gasp,\u003cbr\u003ethey find an Esquimaux village, where they learn that there is a Danish\u003cbr\u003esettlement not too far away, and that from it they can take ship for\u003cbr\u003eEurope, and eventually make their way back to Britain.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171891003632,"sku":"2940013296145","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013296145_p0.jpg?v=1763579374","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013296145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}