Out in the Cold: Travels North: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada - Paperback
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An inspired tale of high adventure, Out in the Cold is Bill Murray's vivid portrait of adventure across the vast Northern Atlantic from the Arctic north of Norway to Nova Scotia. Murray begins in pursuit of a total solar eclipse in Svalbard, 800 miles from the North Pole. He tests the culinary appeal of wind-dried sheep in the tiny Faroe Islands, befriends Inuit bone carvers in Greenland and camps with an itinerant Italian musician who dreams of building Greenland's first luxury resort. He stands naked and freezing on an Icelandic glacier and later (with his clothes on), on the wind-battered Canadian bog where the first European stood 500 years before Columbus.
With a light touch, wry analysis and remarkable depth of reportage, Bill Murray weaves high adventure with practical science and absorbing history, taking the pulse of an under-explored, fragile region on the precipice of change. By turns evocative, astonishing and always a jolly good ride, Out in the Cold is a sprawling and rewarding tour of the Atlantic northlands today.
His first book, Common Sense and Whiskey, is a collection of sixteen off-the-beaten-path travel stories. You'll sail across Lake Malawi on an ancient passenger ship, pay a somnambulant visit to the world's least vibrant capital city, Ascuncion, take an unusual cruise up Papua New Guinea's Sepik River with no other passengers, and enter into a fraught multi-day relationship all the way across Tibet with a driver called Noodle Boy.
Bill's second book is Visiting Chernobyl, A Considered Guide for Travelers. It revisits all the drama of the accident itself, relives the desperate evacuation, and discusses both the physical environs and the political circumstances of the Soviet Union at the time. It's a quick, handy and accessible introduction to the worst nuclear accident in history, useful for aspiring visitors and armchair travelers alike. It's not your traditional guidebook.
Audiobook versions of both, narrated by the author, are available.
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Bill and his wife Mirja maintain the photo web site EarthPhotos.com, 20,000+ photos from around the world, and the travel blog CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com. They spend as much of the summer as they can in a cabin by Lake Saimaa in Finland, and live on a horse farm in the southern Appalachian mountains of Georgia, USA.
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