Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration.
In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made.
Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge―vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness―as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came.
250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission.
Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life.
Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune―at any cost―and how their journey changed the world.
Buddy Levy is the author of seven books and his work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Kirkus Book Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Daily Beast, The A.V. Club and Library Journal. He was the co-star, for 25 episodes from 2010-2012, on HISTORY Channel’s hit docuseries Brad Meltzer’s DECODED, which aired to an average of 1.7 million weekly viewers and is still airing as reruns today. In 2018 he was an on-camera expert on the 4-part TV Series THE FRONTIERSMEN: The Men Who Built America (HISTORY, Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio).
Levy was a contributing writer on the 2018 documentary film The Weight of Water. The film was based in part on the book No Barriers, which Levy co-authored with blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer. The film premiered at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize and the Best Mountain Film Award. It has since won The People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2018 Denver Film Festival; Best Sport and Adventure Film at the 2018 Mendi Bilbao Film Festival; and Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Waimea Ocean Film Festival.
Levy’s most recent book is Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (St. Martins Press, 2019). Levy is the author of the National Bestseller No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon (with Erik Weihenmayer; Thomas Dunne Books, 2017); GERONIMO: The Life and Times of An American Warrior (co-authored with Coach Mike Leach, Simon & Schuster, 2014) and River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Bantam Dell, 2011). His other books include the critically acclaimed and Amazon #1 Bestseller Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Bantam Dell, 2008), which he is currently developing for a television series; American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Putnam, 2005, Berkley Books, 2006); and Echoes On Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge (Pruett, 1998). His books have been published in six languages.
As a freelance journalist he has covered adventure sports and lifestyle/travel subjects around the world, including working with TV impresario Mark Burnett on numerous Eco-Challenges, and other adventure expeditions in Argentina, Borneo, Europe, Greenland, Morocco, and the Philippines. His interests are wide-ranging: discovery and adventure, the mountain men, arctic exploration travail, clashes of empires and civilizations, conspiracy theories, and riveting human stories of survival.
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评分我得说,这部作品在人物塑造上的功力,简直是鬼斧神工。它没有用宏大的叙事去渲染英雄主义,反而将笔触聚焦在那些微小、几近崩溃的人性瞬间。特别是几位主要角色之间的关系,那种建立在共同绝望之上的联盟,脆弱得如同薄冰,随时可能因猜疑或恐惧而碎裂。作者很擅长运用对话来推动情节和揭示性格,那些简短、被压缩的句子,往往比长篇的心理描写更具冲击力。我印象最深的是主角与那位神秘向导之间的互动,他们的交流充满了试探和隐晦的语言交锋,每次看似毫无意义的寒暄背后,都隐藏着对彼此底线的试探。这种张力让阅读过程充满了刺激性,我甚至会因为角色之间一个眼神的交错而屏住呼吸,猜测他们下一步的行动。更绝妙的是,作者对“信任”这一主题的解构,它不再是单纯的美德,而是一种在特定情境下被精心计算的工具。读到后面,我甚至开始怀疑自己对角色的判断,究竟谁是真正的盟友,谁又在暗中布设陷阱?这种深层次的人性挖掘,使得故事的复杂性远超一般的冒险小说范畴。
评分这部小说的开篇就以一种令人窒息的压抑感抓住了我。作者对于环境的细致描摹简直是教科书级别的,那种寒冷不再是简单的温度描述,而是一种渗透到骨髓里、连思维都仿佛被冰封住的真实感受。我能清晰地“看”到,主人公每呼吸一次,都有白色的雾气凝结成冰晶,那种空气中弥漫的铁锈味和雪松的清冷气息,仿佛都能通过文字传递过来。故事的节奏铺陈得极其缓慢而精准,仿佛是一块巨大的冰川在移动,每一步都带着不可逆转的重量感。起初的章节,更多的是对生存困境的哲学思辨,关于人类在极端环境下对意义的追寻,以及记忆如何在严寒中扭曲变形。我尤其欣赏作者处理内心独白的方式,它们不是直白的自我剖析,而是像在冰下暗流涌动的溪水,时而湍急,时而静谧,却始终指向一个幽深、难以捉摸的核心。这种慢热的叙事,让我不得不放慢自己的阅读速度,去细细品味那些潜藏在雪层之下的伏笔和暗示,感觉每翻过一页,就离真相更近一步,但也更深地陷进那片无边无际的寂静之中。整个氛围构建得如同一个精致的、布满陷阱的迷宫,每一步的决策都关乎生死存亡,让人手心冒汗。
评分这部作品的氛围营造,达到了近乎令人窒息的艺术高度。它不仅仅是设定在一个冰雪世界,更像是一种“冰冷美学”的极致展现。作者对声音的运用尤其出色,那些细微的声响——冰层开裂的尖锐断裂声、远方传来的狼嚎声,甚至是血液滴落到雪地上的沉闷声——都被放大和聚焦,它们构成了角色心理状态的外部投射。每次场景转换,那种从一个极度黑暗、封闭的空间进入另一个空旷、却同样充满威胁的室外场景时,感官上的冲击是巨大的。我感觉自己仿佛真的置身于那种永恒的、没有温度的黑暗之中,连希望都像是被冻结的液体。此外,书中对“符号”的运用也令人印象深刻。那些反复出现的图腾、标记,或是某种神秘的几何图形,它们在不同的语境下被赋予了不同的意义,它们如同幽灵一般徘徊在文字间,提示着读者,这背后隐藏着一个远超人类理解范畴的宏大秘密。这种充满象征意义的写作手法,极大地提升了小说的深度和回味空间。
评分读完之后,我最深刻的感受是关于“未知”和“限制”的哲学探讨。这本书巧妙地避开了传统的善恶二元对立,转而深入挖掘当个体被推到生存极限时,道德的边界会如何模糊和消解。它迫使读者去思考:在一个完全剥夺了所有舒适和预设规则的环境中,我们究竟能依靠什么来定义自己?书中的“迷宫”显然不只是地理上的障碍,它更是对人类认知局限性的一种隐喻。每一次成功的“突破”,似乎都伴随着某种更深层次的迷失或牺牲。作者在处理超自然元素时也显得非常高明,它们不是突兀的奇幻设定,而是与环境、心理状态深度融合,让你分不清哪些是幻觉,哪些是真实。这种游走在现实与非现实之间的模糊地带,让我对故事中那些所谓的“规则”始终保持着高度的警惕。它不提供廉价的答案,而是留下了一系列深刻的、关于生存本质的问题,值得反复咀嚼和思索,绝对是一部能让人在合上书本后,依然久久不能平静的杰作。
评分10天才读完,时间地点人物很多,看的时候必须在电脑前,打开豆瓣,真正做到了边读边记录。作者想必查阅了大量的资料,从探险队出发前的准备,到数十年后队长Greely逝世,按照时间顺序都捋了一遍,特别在北极的那段,几乎没有时间空白,做到了详细的史实还原。感谢探险队员们的日记还有作者的整理,让我了解到140年前这群勇敢坚强的探险者们,在地球最寒冷地区的种种经历。在死亡的威胁下,人性的光辉和黑暗,失败和希望,一次又一次的交锋。喜欢严守军纪、正直果断的Greely,勤勤恳恳、热心无私的Grainard。谢谢勇敢去未知世界的人们!
评分10天才读完,时间地点人物很多,看的时候必须在电脑前,打开豆瓣,真正做到了边读边记录。作者想必查阅了大量的资料,从探险队出发前的准备,到数十年后队长Greely逝世,按照时间顺序都捋了一遍,特别在北极的那段,几乎没有时间空白,做到了详细的史实还原。感谢探险队员们的日记还有作者的整理,让我了解到140年前这群勇敢坚强的探险者们,在地球最寒冷地区的种种经历。在死亡的威胁下,人性的光辉和黑暗,失败和希望,一次又一次的交锋。喜欢严守军纪、正直果断的Greely,勤勤恳恳、热心无私的Grainard。谢谢勇敢去未知世界的人们!
评分10天才读完,时间地点人物很多,看的时候必须在电脑前,打开豆瓣,真正做到了边读边记录。作者想必查阅了大量的资料,从探险队出发前的准备,到数十年后队长Greely逝世,按照时间顺序都捋了一遍,特别在北极的那段,几乎没有时间空白,做到了详细的史实还原。感谢探险队员们的日记还有作者的整理,让我了解到140年前这群勇敢坚强的探险者们,在地球最寒冷地区的种种经历。在死亡的威胁下,人性的光辉和黑暗,失败和希望,一次又一次的交锋。喜欢严守军纪、正直果断的Greely,勤勤恳恳、热心无私的Grainard。谢谢勇敢去未知世界的人们!
评分10天才读完,时间地点人物很多,看的时候必须在电脑前,打开豆瓣,真正做到了边读边记录。作者想必查阅了大量的资料,从探险队出发前的准备,到数十年后队长Greely逝世,按照时间顺序都捋了一遍,特别在北极的那段,几乎没有时间空白,做到了详细的史实还原。感谢探险队员们的日记还有作者的整理,让我了解到140年前这群勇敢坚强的探险者们,在地球最寒冷地区的种种经历。在死亡的威胁下,人性的光辉和黑暗,失败和希望,一次又一次的交锋。喜欢严守军纪、正直果断的Greely,勤勤恳恳、热心无私的Grainard。谢谢勇敢去未知世界的人们!
评分10天才读完,时间地点人物很多,看的时候必须在电脑前,打开豆瓣,真正做到了边读边记录。作者想必查阅了大量的资料,从探险队出发前的准备,到数十年后队长Greely逝世,按照时间顺序都捋了一遍,特别在北极的那段,几乎没有时间空白,做到了详细的史实还原。感谢探险队员们的日记还有作者的整理,让我了解到140年前这群勇敢坚强的探险者们,在地球最寒冷地区的种种经历。在死亡的威胁下,人性的光辉和黑暗,失败和希望,一次又一次的交锋。喜欢严守军纪、正直果断的Greely,勤勤恳恳、热心无私的Grainard。谢谢勇敢去未知世界的人们!
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