Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Science and Technology

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British ex...