Arctic Ice A Novel

Based on a sailor's actual journal and intense research, the book is told from the viewpoint of a sailor, following his life from 1904-1906. It recounts some of the history of San Francisco, including the Barbary Coast with its saloon brawls, and illicit shipping activities, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath, and covers 18 months of a voyage by a trading schooner to the Beaufort Sea above the Arctic Circle, which includes information on Arctic storms, native culture, whales, walrus, polar bears, Roald Amundsen's North West Passage, kidnappings and murder.Butterfield, Maryann M. is the author of 'Arctic Ice A Novel', published 2005 under ISBN 9780976490005 and ISBN 0976490005.