Baby, it's cold outside...

[ja9]

Well, no - but if I say it enough, maybe I'll believe it. Actually, it's probably hot enough to fry the proverbial egg on the sidewalk today, and I'm at home with an anemic air conditioner that doesn't work well on its best days, of which this is definitely not.

So, I'm reading "Tragedy & Triumph: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition". I was in the middle of "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl", but the descriptions of summer heat in the South were not helping my situation at all. Much better to be reading about ice and snow and freezing to death, which at this point sounds pretty good to me.

This got me thinking about other books that have cold weather in them. Russian novels are an obvious choice, but what else? I'd like to find something that's a little lighter reading, since my brain is fried from all this heat. Any suggestions for a novel that's entertaining and has lots of cold in it? Snow preferred, ice storms gratefully accepted.

Thanks.

 

[ions]

Journey or Alaska by James A. Michener.

 

[Rogue]

Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

After a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the divers disappear while checking out the craft. Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield and his highly trained team of Marines respond to the scientists' distress signal. By the time the leathernecks reach Wilkes, three days later, one of the scientists has killed another, six more members of the Wilkes team have disappeared in the ice cave and eight French scientists from a nearby station are for some reason at the U.S. base.

The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child

Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world.
Fortunately for Lloyd, he knows people--people like Eli Glinn, the hyper-focused president of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc.; Glinn's nonconformist, genius of a mathematician, Rachel Amira; and the uncannily able construction engineer, Manuel Garza. Lloyd's also tapped the brilliant but disgraced meteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane, and the exceptional supertanker captain, Sally Britton, whose career was unshipped by intemperance and a reef. Of course, such a team has a hefty price tag.
EES's plan is to obtain mining rights to the island, secure the allegiance of various Chilean functionaries via blinding sums of money, disguise a state-of- the-art supertanker as a decrepit ore rig, mine the rock, slip it into the ship, and zip back to New York to thunderous notoriety. Unforeseen, however, are a rogue Chilean naval captain, seas to make Sebastian Junger boot, and a blood-red meteorite of undetermined pedigree and a habit of discharging billions of volts of electricity for no apparent reason.

 

[Robert]

Most of Deception Point by Dan Brown takes part in the Arctic. Also, a part of Clive Cussler's Atlantis Found takes place in Antarctica.