Book Review: The Long Exile by Melanie McGrath

I’ll be the first to admit that, occasionally, I cry at books. But I have never cried before when telling someone else about something I have read in a book. This is exactly what happened while I was reading The Long Exile: A true story of deception and survival in the Canadian Arctic by Melanie […]

Book Review: Polar Wives by Kari Herbert

Too often when we think of polar exploration we imagine a man’s world. Not so in Kari Herbert’s excellent book Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the World’s Most Daring Explorers. Inspired by her own parents (the polar explorer Wally Herbert, and his equally adventurous wife, Marie), Kari looks at the wives of the greats. […]