in answer to Douglas: read it, loved it, but after I
wrote the sequence. What I had read before was Frozen
in Time, by I no longer recall whom, Pierre Berthon's
The Arctic Grail, and then a bunch of other stuff as a
result. Fleming's book, by the way, though hugely
entertaining, is grossly unfair to Joseph-Rene Bellot.
He wasn't just some jessie in a pink snowsuit; he'd
won the Legion d'Honneur at 19 before he ever went to
the Arctic and he was immensely respected and liked by
all who knew him. He hadn't a trace of national or
race prejudice; he was working out a plan for a
prototype UN up there and his Inuit crew cried at his
death, which was fairly remarkable given that they
weren't in the habit of crying for the death of their
own kin.
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