“They had to solve a perfectly good mystery,” says a disgruntled character in Ed O’Loughlin’s novel Minds of Winter. He buries the two men, and while he would like to keep the axe, O’Loughlin writes: “you can’t take a man’s last axe. To a scientific observer such as Bellot, O’Loughlin writes, this meant “His journal would be his scientific Bible, his instruments his Redeemers. RelatedPerhaps it is the ease by which the Arctic can kill you that gives O’Loughlin’s novel its force. “You should not go outside in these white-out conditions,” O’Loughlin writes.

Source: National Post February 02, 2017 19:11 UTC