Five top books on the very cold

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on the very cold:
Alone on the Ice
by David Roberts

We’ll let Peter Lewis set the scene: “Imagine being in the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson's boots late one Antarctic night. Better yet, image sliding your weary, cold-cracked bones into his wet, stinking reindeer fur sleeping bag, which is shedding hair as if in