Four Against the Arctic

If you were to go by the title and the summary on the back of the book, you would believe that you were getting this great long story about the four people who lived on an Arctic island for six years. Now that would have been a great book! But what we get instead is the tale of Roberts' search for i......more

This book is not about "four against the arctic". It is about the authors mostly failed attempt to gather information on the 4 Pomori hunters that lived 6 years in the arctic after being stranded on a remote island. A title and description of a book couldn't be more misleading. Not what I wanted. If......more

Good try by a good nature writer. This is not one of Dave Roberts' better books. The story of the 4 sailors shipwrecked can't be told. And the story about Dave as an enquiring writer is only modestly interesting.......more

This book talks about four Russians of Pomori decent and their marooning on an island off of the coast of Svalbard(very Northern Europe). The group only had two days worth of supplies, but three of them managed to live for more than six years, before their eventual rescue in 1749. The Svalbard area......more

It was okay. However the title is wrong, it should be more accurately named: My Experience Researching the Russian Shipwreck of 1743 and other stories. I wish it had truly been a book devoted to the men who lived on Edgeøya for 6 years.......more