ARGONAUT BOOKS

A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic circle. Travelling with the crew of Icebreaker Otso, Horatio, whose last adventure saw him embedded on Maersk container vessels for the bestseller 'Down to the Sea in Ships', discovers stories of Finland, of her mariners and of ice. Reviews Icebreaker sails with a phlegmatic Finnish crew into threatening and threatened polar waters... Clare's witty prose, filled with vivid descriptions, bears witness...Read More