Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age / Reid Mitenbuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitenbuler, Reid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freuchen, Peter, 1886-1957.

Freuchen, Peter.

Explorers--Arctic regions--Biography.

Explorers.

Explorers--Denmark--Biography.

Adventure and adventurers--Denmark--Biography.

Adventure and adventurers.

Authors, Danish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Danish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age

Place of Publication:

New York : Sugar23 Books, Mariner Books, [2023]

Summary:

"The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II." -- inside front jacket flap.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

1. "I Was Shivering in My Boots"

2. "I Could Do the Job"

3. "The Island of My Dreams"

4. "Irrepressible Restlessness"

5. "Chaos"

6. "I Am Good at Something Here"

7. "Only as Skeletons in a Museum"

PART II

8. "Hell on Earth"

9. "Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs, You Can Have the Rest"

10. "Big Peter"

11. "It Is the Dark and Cold That Make Us Think Most"

12. "We Must Pay for Its Beauty Time After Time"

13. "Life Loomed Ahead"

PART III

14. "A Revolution Was Taking Place in Me"

15. "One Gets the Idea Here "

16. "A Vast Desert of Cold and Dead"

17. "Some Dogs Do Not Give a Damn What They Eat"

18. "I Have Hated Pudding Ever Since"

19. "Even Arctic Explorers Need Publicity"

20. "But a Pawn in This Game of the Gods"

21. "I Could Not Leave the Book Alone"

22. "Whether She Was an Angel or Not"

23. "Tired of Being a Curiosity"

24. "At Least I Have the Remedy ..."

PART IV

25. "I Know Good Men by Sight"

26. "What a Way to Die"

27. "What Is So Funny?"

28. "I Had a Premonition"

29. "But Now It Had Charged Me a Bitter Commission"

PART V

30. Storfanger

31. "There Was No Reason to Choose the Slower and Harder Way"

32. "I Have Seen So Many Naked People in My Time"

33. "Somebody Here Wants to See You"

34. "I Want the Elemental, Infinite Thing"

35. "I'll Die on That Icecap Sometime"

36. "A Turning Point in My Life"

37. "Eat Their Candy and Listen to Their Stupidness"

38. "Unusual, Spectacular, Disturbing"

39. "Hollywood Perspective"

40. "Strange, Independent Personalities"

41. "Loved to Serve a Good Cause"

PART VI

42. "Once All This Is Done With"

43. "Is It Worth It?"

44. "The Rest of My Life Would Be a Voyage"

45. "But This Habit of Not Guarding My Tongue"

46. "It Was Not Easy"

47. "It Was Business (Maybe Monkey Business)"

48. "It Was Love at First Sight"

49. "The Poetry of Progress"

50. "Peter Freuchen Has Lived Nine Lives".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-478) and index.

ISBN:

9780358468325

0358468329

OCLC:

1368052189