The Other Side of the Ice: One Family's Treacherous Journey Negotiating the Northwest Passage

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Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the Northwest Passagethe sea route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacificthe ultimate uncharted territory. Since Roald Amundsen completed the first successful crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage in 1906, only twenty-four pleasure craft have followed in his wake. Many more people have gone into space than have traversed the Passage, and a staggering number have died trying. From his home port of Newport, Rhode Island, through the Passage and around Alaska to Seattle, it would be an 8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar bears, and severe weather.

What Theobald couldnt have known was just how life-changing his journey through the Passage would be. Reuniting his children and stepchildren after a bad divorce more than fifteen years earlier, the family embarks with unanswered questions, untold hurts, and unspoken mistrusts hanging over their heads. Unrelenting cold, hungry polar bears, and a haunting landscape littered with sobering artifacts from the tragic Franklin Expedition of 1845, as well as personality clashes that threaten to tear the crew apart, make The Other Side of the Ice a harrowing story of survival, adventure, and, ultimately, redemption.

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Sprague Theobald has received both national and international recognition for his writing, producing, cinematography and editing, including an Emmy Award for his work on "The 26th Defense; The End of An Era." As a writer, Sprague has been published in The New York Times and was a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles. As a professional sailor, Sprague's resume includes 12 meter racing in the America's Cup arena, several transatlantic races, one of which was the Two Man Transatlantic Race, a complete circumnavigation of North America, and over 40,000 off-shore miles. He lives and works out of Newport, RI. Allan Kreda spent almost two decades with the Associated Press and Bloomberg News in New York, where he covered money and banking, the National Hockey League and the sports media business. Now a freelance writer, editor and author, he is a member of the Friars Club in New York and is also a regular contributor to Athletes Quarterly. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he lives in New York City.