Review | The giant, bearded polar explorer who became a Hollywood celebrity

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Review: The giant, bearded polar explorer who became a Hollywood celebrity

For decades Freuchen was a household name in Europe and America, thanks in part to his 30-odd novels and nonfiction bestsellers — two of them stood on my father’s bookshelves, which I first thumbed through at an early age, fuel for my own eventual journeys to the very places he roamed.

in 1956 before dying of a heart attack in Alaska en route to a televised overflight of the North Pole.is at times a rollicking book about a remarkable life, but Mitenbuler runs into two problems. First, for all his adventures, Freuchen was mostly a supporting character. He opened the trading post in Thule as an employee of Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen and a host of wealthy Danish investors . It was Rasmussen, not Freuchen, who organized and led the famed Thule expeditions.

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