Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmakerand expert sailor with over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt,always considered the Northwest Passage��he sea route connectingthe
Atlantic to the Pacific��he ultimate uncharted territory.Since Roald Amundsen completed the first successful crossing ofthe fabled Northwest Passage in 1906, only twenty-four pleasurecraft have
followed in his wake. Many more people have gone intospace than have traversed the Passage, and a staggering numberhave died trying. From his home port of Newport, Rhode Island,through the
Passage and around Alaska to Seattle, it would be an8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar bears,and severe weather.
What Theobald couldn�� have known was just how life-changinghis journey through the Passage would be. Reuniting his childrenand stepchildren after a bad divorce more than fifteen years
earlier,the family embarks with unanswered questions, untold hurts, andunspoken mistrusts hanging over their heads. Unrelenting cold,hungry polar bears, and a haunting landscape littered with
soberingartifacts from the tragic Franklin Expedition of 1845, as well aspersonality clashes that threaten to tear the crew apart, make TheOther Side of the Ice a harrowing story of
survival, adventure, and,ultimately, redemption.
