

Four Against the Arctic
Author: David Roberts
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 21 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author: David Roberts
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 21 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
David Roberts (1943-2021) was the author of dozens of books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. His essays and articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and the Atlantic Monthly.
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