Polar Love

Who did the great adventurers think of when homesickness struck them during the cold polar night? And why did they keep returning to the ice despite their personal sacrifices? In this collection of love letters and stories, Roald Amundsen receives letters from a secret admirer; the great love between Fridtjof Nansen and his wife, the singer Eva Sars, endures all his expeditions thanks to their correspondence; Robert Peary's wife Josephine and daughter Marie must spend a winter in the ice with his beautiful Inuit lover and the child she has from him; and two stranded explorers argue over a photo with 53 women. In the end, there is the moving farewell letter from Robert Falcon Scott to his wife, written in the realization that he will not return alive from Antarctica.