Books like Icebound by Andrea Pitzer

Bill Bryson reflects on his own Midwestern childhood in a humorous, candid memoir that blends personal anecdotes with a portrait of 1950s America.

A comprehensive, research‑based chronicle of the American Jeannette Expedition (1879‑1881) to the North Pole, detailing the ship’s voyage, hardships, and the subsequent aftermath.

It was once believed that the North Pole was surrounded by an open polar sea. Some of the attempts to prove this theory and to reach the pole itself once the theory was abandoned are the subject of this book. Fleming, author of the critically acclaimed Barrow's Boys, provides an entertaining history of the many failed attempts to reach the North Pole, from the hardship of the Kane expedition of 1853 through the Amundsen-Ellsworth North Pole sighting via airship in 1926. Though not all polar attempts in this time period are covered, many of the major attempts are recounted and analyzed, providing a story that is both awe-inspiring and humorous. Drawing on research from published and unpublished accounts, Fleming tells the stories of the failed land/sea attempts by such polar adventurers as Edward Nares, Fridtjof Nanson, Charles Francis Hall, August Petermann, and George Washington de Long, as well as the fatal attempt by Sweden's Salomon August Andr‚e by balloon. The controversial topic of who first stood at 90-degrees North is not answered here; only through the investigation of Frederick Cook's and Robert Peary's expeditions does the reader learn that neither can conclusively claim this achievement.

A gripping adventure where two siblings discover survival secrets amid a frozen Arctic expedition.

Bound by Ice follows the journey of George Washington De Long and the crew of the USS Jeannette, who departed San Francisco in the summer of 1879 hoping to find a route to the North Pole. ... Many—including De Long—did not survive.

Engineered a polar expedition, Perry Sachs discovers a centuries‑old artifact under Antarctica’s ice, unaware of the looming forces eager to claim it.

Swedish explorer Andree's expedition to the Arctic failed when their hydrogen balloon ascended prematurely, causing the fatal deaths of the three crew members.