Milton, Giles | EMPIRE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

En berättelse om en katastrofal arktisk expedition präglad av imperialistiska ambitioner, överlevnad och mänsklig desperation.

• En fängslande berättelse om imperialismens konsekvenser.

• Utforskar mänsklig överlevnad i extrema förhållanden.

• Utgiven som häftat band.

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-24

Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Hachette UK Distribution
ISBN: 9781399822732

Omfång: 320 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-24

Förlagets information

A harrowing Arctic adventure of imperial rivalries at the frozen edge of the world.

One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back.

1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere, he takes an impossible gamble. Dispatching a small, ill-equipped venture to stake a frozen colony in Britain's name, it is a triumph brilliance, ego and breathtaking hubris.

What follows is a catastrophe of starvation, madness, and geopolitical risk. As winter seals the island in ice, relief ships fail to arrive and tensions among the colonists spiral toward despair. While diplomats spar and warships steam north, the settlers are left to endure scurvy, polar bears, and the terror of abandonment. At the centre of it all stands one unlikely survivor - a young Inuit seamstress who can outlast them all...

Sweeping, chilling and stranger than fiction, Empire at the Edge of the World is a story of greed and justice at the edge of the world.

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