“Synnott delivers a thrilling account of his 2022 journey through Canada’s inhospitable Arctic islands… while recapping heart-pounding encounters with blizzards, gales, polar bears, and an Arctic typhoon—all in a 47-foot fiberglass sailboat that could crack open like a walnut if caught in the ice…a page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Part historical detective story, part modern-day seafaring saga, Into the Ice paints an indelible portrait of the delicate yet perilous world of the Arctic. But Mark Synnott has also done something else. Out of gin-clear fjords, ice floes the size of Walmart Supercenters, and century-old Inuit tales of marooned British mariners, he’s crafted a moving parable on ambition, hubris, and the price of ignoring Indigenous voices in a beautiful yet haunted land.”—Scott Ellsworth, bestselling author of The Ground Breaking

“An extraordinary account of expedition sailing and painstaking historic detective work. Synnott writes with humility and grace born of deep experience in difficult situations. He's as tough as they come but this voyage, the harrowing and heroic story of piloting Polar Sun, a 47' fiberglass sailboat, through the Northwest Passage will leave you shivering and awestruck. Synnott and crew display a raw tenacity that rivals the early explorers they retrace, pressing on as the forbidding Arctic throws all it has at them. You will have to read the book to see if Synnott finds the lost tomb of Sir John Franklin, but there's no doubt he rediscovers his spirit. Into the Ice will join the ranks of classic arctic literature, it's a hell of a read.”—John Kretschmer, author of Sailing to the Edge of Time