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'Summer 1897: Three Swedish men set off on a perilous journey. Led by Salomon August Andrée, they hope to reach
the North Pole in a hot air balloon. The expedition fails miserably. Despite rescue missions throughout the remaining
years of the century, the party - Andrée, Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg - are lost to the world until 1930, when
Norwegian sealers inadvertently discover the men's remains in the expedition's final camp on a small tundra called
Kvitøya, in the Arctic Ocean. 1930: Smug, young Swedish journalist, Knut Stubbendorff, is sent to report from the
site. Among the remains he finds the private journal of Nils Strindberg, filled with letters written to his fiancée, a
young governess named Anna Charlier. Moved by the sincerity and emotion of these love messages he sets off on a
journey of his own to find the woman and pass on Nils' letters. Two men, two eras, one woman -
can Stubbendorff unravel this mysterious love story that the past has kept secret?' (Publisher's blub)
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Review : Perfect North
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December/January 2013; (p. 35)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel -
Challenge Decisively Met
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 October 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel -
Obligation and Desire
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 October 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel
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Obligation and Desire
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 October 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel -
Challenge Decisively Met
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 October 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel -
Review : Perfect North
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December/January 2013; (p. 35)
— Review of Perfect North 2013 single work novel
Last amended 23 Apr 2013 14:25:57
Settings:
- Arctic,
- 1887
- 1930
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