In the Kingdom of Ice

Is In the Kingdom of Ice the best nonfiction I've read this year? you ask.

It just might be.

But how can that be? you continue. Didn't you also read the amazing Dead Wake? And Being Mortal?

Yes. And yes.

You prod me, You just can't leave it at that. Tell me more.

But Kingdom of Ice is the incredible true story of some of the bravest men who ever lived, men who tried to take a ship to the North Pole in the 1870's, get trapped in the ice, have to abandon their ship when the vessel sinks, and attempt to travel over sea and land to Siberia in one of the coldest places on earth.

Yes, you say. I see. Now that's a story.

Yes. That's a story.