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Title: Under a Pole Star

Author: Stef Penney

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of 12. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press as "The Snow Queen" - sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously, but determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition, despite the many who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men.

Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition, led by the furiously driven Lester Armitage. When Jakob and Flora's paths cross, it is a fateful meeting. All three become obsessed with the north, a place where violent extremes exist side by side: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows; heroism and lies. Armitage's ruthless desire to be the true leader of polar discovery takes him and his men on a mission whose tragic outcome will reverberate for years to come.

Set against the stark, timeless beauty of northern Greenland, and fin-de-siècle New York and London, Under a Pole Star is a compelling look at the dark side of the "golden age" of exploration, a study of the corrosive power of ambition, and an epic, incendiary love story. It shows that sometimes you have to travel to the furthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it.

Members Reviews:

The Arctic chills floats from the page..

I love books like this â where the landscape is so remote and cold and unfriendly that you even feel nervous about going there in fiction form. But thereâs something about explorers and what they achieved despite the lack of technology we have now and the work they had to do to get to the most inhospitable places on earth that really fascinates me. The early scenes of a woman known as the Snow Queen heading back with a journalist whoâs hoping to find out about this amazing woman and what happened on that journey were just full of foreboding and it was the start of a great read for me.

Itâs the landscape of Greenland which for me is just fascinating and eerily evoked. The ice and water are weapons, wild and unpredictable, the boat journey through the ice fraught with danger never mind when they get there. Flora for me was a character made for role of explore â no nonsense and I did chuckle when she turned out to be someone who had tried humour in her twenties and then gave it up.

Itâs a novel which reads like a ghostly expedition through one of the most hostile shipping lanes in the world a land so remote and cold that few have managed to go there and return successfully. But imagine the excitement of being the first if not one of the first. If you go missing people here then who would ever know?

Ooh I did like this one. Chilling in more ways than one but ethereal too.

If you are fond of boundary-shattering journeys --- geographical, sexual and scientific --- youâll have a great ride

With an Indian Summer upon us, what could be more refreshing than a tale of Arctic exploration? Author Stef Penney set her first novel, THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, in the bleak frozen landscape of northern Canada and won the prestigious Costa Book of the Year award in 2006. With the fan on full blast, I began to read her third, UNDER A POLE STAR, shivering in happy anticipation of another voyage into the ice.

The novel opens with a modern odyssey: the press junket.