Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
In 1913, William Stephenson, a Briton who changed his name to Vilhjalmur Stefansson to sound more like the Viking forefathers he idolised, organised an expedition to claim part of the Arctic as a British colony, with disastrous consequences. In Empire at the Edge of the World: Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic, internationally bestselling historian, Giles Milton, recounts this incredible but true episode in the last year before the First World War.
Presented by Helmsley Literary Festival
