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BUYING BOOKS IN WINNIPEG\n\nby Pat Porth  \n# ☆ VIEWS\n\n☆ AND REVIEWS  \n☆ PAST SELECTIONS  \nselected and edited by Farley Mowatreviewed by Robert Weaverpage 2  \nCoLUMBIA UVERTYLIB武ARIEB  \nJAN 3019C'  \npage 4  \nL院ART SE武VICE L  \npage 6  \npage 8  \npage 10  \npage 10  \n# Readers'Club Selection:\n\nORDEAL BY ICE  \nSelected and edited by Farley MowatReviewed by Robert Weaver  \nIn a recent issue Maclean's published an article showing how Cana-dians spend money,time and energy trying to create the illusion that thisisn't all that northern a country.Most of us seem either to be bored orfrightened by the North,made gloomy and dispirited by our harsh winters(I feel more dispirited in the month of August).And so we have left it tothe Scandinavian countries and the Soviet Union to lead the way indeveloping the cold deserts at the top of the world.  \nBut one Canadian who believes in exploiting the North for all it'sworth is Farley Mowat.His new book,Ordeal by Ice,is the story of threecenturies of efforts to push a way through the great,menacing ice packsof the Arctic to find a passage to the East.The book is made up ofextracts from journals,diaries and official documents.Mr.Mowat hasedited and arranged the selections,and he has also provided his ownintroductions and notes to make the book a continuous narrative.For aman of his cranky and romantic temperament,Farley Mowat turns outto be a surprisingly detached and modest editor.  \nMost of the selections in Ordeal by Ice are likely to be unfamiliar tomost readers,but two well-known stories are included in the book.Thefirst is a description of Henry Hudson's ill-fated voyage,the mutiny ofhis crew,and his abandonment with eight others in a small boat.Thisstory is told by a man with the improbable name of Abacuk Prickett,whowas,Farley Mowat believes,an unfrocked priest.The mutineers had theirlast view of Hudson when their lookout reported that he was following  \nstubbornly after them in the small boat.“And so,”Prickett writes,\"theylet fall the mainsail and broke out the topsail and fled as if before anenen.y.”  \nThe other famous tragedy described in Ordeal by Ice is the dis-appearance in 1845 of Sir John Franklin and the 130 men in his com-mand.This mystery looms like an iceberg over the final third of the book.A number of search parties tried to find the lost expedition,and althoughFranklin and his men had vanished forever,their deaths did lead indirectlyto the discovery and re-discovery of great stretches of the Arctic.  \nFranklin also gives Farley Mowat the ironic story of Sir EdwardBelcher,who abandoned four ships in panic during one of the searchesfor the lost expedition,and fled back to England.But the next spring hisflagship“The Resolute”broke free of the ice,sailed along for 1,000 miles,and finally returned in triumph to England with a crew of whalers aboard.  \nSo there is some lightness in Ordeal by Ice.There is,for example,the stylish,exuberant,and probably largely untruthful report from theSieur de la Potherie to the King of France about how he whipped theEnglish in Hudson's Bay.But the most powerful story in the book is anunrelieved tragedy:the day by day journal of the Danish Captain JensMunk,who was trapped for a winter in the ice,watched 61 of his mendie,and sailed wearily home the next spring with three survivors.  \nMr.Mowat has a thesis,and his thesis is that men died who mighthave lived because they refused to learn from the people—the Eskimo—who had discovered how to survive in the infinite barrenness o the Arctic.His thesis sounds reasonable to me,but it doesn't make the ice seem anyless menacing and awful a presence.  \nOrdeal by Ice has been well named,and it is well served by its pub-lisher with a handsome jacket in solid black at the top with cold whitesand greens and blues beneath.On the back of the jacket there is a fi","cbCaimi6zR1P7yE1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimi6zR1P7yE1","pdf",3250031,13,"English","# ORDEAL BY ICE\n## 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