Download or read book A Winter Away from Home written by Rayner Unwin and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first West Europeans to winter in the high Arctic and survive, Dutch sailing-master William Barents and his 16-member crew battled scurvy, hunger, the assaults of bears, and the intense winter cold, then made a 1,600-mile escape in open boats. Barents died on the way home, but his voyage was meticulously recorded in remarkably vivid detail by one of the survivors.