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Book Club: Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

  • December 07, 2025
  • 4:00 PM
  • Jackie's (address sent with registration confirmation)

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Come join us at book club!  All are welcome to join even if you haven't finished or started the book!

What we're currently reading:

Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

Written by Mark Synnott

Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, and substantially fewer have done so in a fiberglass-hulled boat like Polar Sun. But Mark was determined to return to the Arctic, where he cut his teeth as a young climber, and in the process investigate one of the great mysteries of exploration: What really happened to Sir John Franklin and his entire 128-man crew, which disappeared into these ice-strewn waters 175 years ago?

In this pulse-pounding travelogue, Mark Synnott paints a vivid portrait of the Arctic, which is currently warming twice as fast as any other part of our planet. He weaves its history and people into the first-person account of his epic journey through the Northwest Passage, searching for Franklin's tomb along the way-- all while trying to avoid a similar fate.
In Into the Ice, Mark and his crew race against time and treacherous storms in search of answers to the greatest mystery of all time: What is it that drives someone to risk it all in the name of exploration?



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