This book is interesting for a number of reasons. First, it is a story which has a history of its own, written decades ago and re-published in an updated version exhibiting the artwork of the original hardcover. However, it is the story of the legendary John Hornby which grasps the reader, and catapults him back into a time when true adventurists and explorers still existed. The book does a wonderful job of making the reader feel that he is with Hornby in the Arctic, living in a hole dug into an esker, walking blindly through a blizzard, or starving on a river bank in the middle of Arctic 'summer'. A must read for those who enjoy stories of adventure in desolate places.

I first thought I would not waste my time writing a review on this;but when I saw there was yet to be a first to be submitted;and this has been out since 1982,I thought it deserved one.In my opinion it had no purpose,nothing new to say.no story line nor any redeeming value. It was simply just an assembling of a list of perverse thoughts. I find it hard to believe that anyone who has read Erskine Caldwell,John Steinbeck or Larry McMurtry could consider this good storytelling.