We Take a View of the Ice

The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

by William Clark RUSSELL (1844 - 1911)

Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been hailed as the pre-eminent English writer of his ilk, compared to such American writers as Melville and Dana. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Listen next episodes of The Frozen Pirate (version 2):
A Change Comes Over the Frenchman , A Merry Evening , I am Troubled by Thoughts of the Treasure , I Encounter a Whaler , I Strike a Bargain with the Yankee , I Value the Lading , Our Progress to the Channel , Postscript , The End , The Frenchman Dies , The Ice Breaks Away , The Schooner Frees Herself , We Explore the Mines