Notable & Quotable
BOOKSHELF
Sir Robert McClure, his ship trapped in Arctic ice in 1853 during a search for John Franklin's lost expedition, encounters the member of another search expedition, this one coming to his rescue.
Passage to Nowhere
Two books describe the long, arduous attempts to find the Northwest Passage and join oceans by going over the top of the world: Anthony Brandt's "The Man Who Ate His Boots" and Glyn Williams's "Arctic Labyrinth."