land of the snowmen (norman lock)

Land of the Snowmen is said to be written by George Belden, who participated on Scott’s disastrous 1905 mission to Antarctica. Belden and his fellow explorers go quietly mad in the icy wastes. They have visions and are visited by ghosts. Belden documents all this with a wry, tragic charm. It’s not going to end well. However, despite being attributed to Belden, the book is clearly a capricious work of fiction. Belden is an invention and the whole account is a work of the imagination of the writer Norman Lock, attributed as editor. This is a winsome project, steeped in the myths of the explorers, albeit a wispy, snowy thing.