The Cold Coasts Author:Jim Burns THE COLD COASTS - a Cold War adventure in the high Arctic, featuring pack ice, seals and polar bears, and frigid islands just a few hundred miles from the North Pole. In 1955, American and Norwegian intelligence officers and scientists sail aboard a sealing vessel to spy on the Russians and locate sites for illegal military airstrips ... more »on the Spitsbergen islands. It could have become an international incident – until a huge chunk of ice intervened. The Cold Coasts is also the story of a young family man: a geologist who seemed to disappear from the face of the earth while on this secret mission. Fresh from witnessing atomic testing in the American West, he found himself bound for Russian waters, living as a Norwegian seal hunter. After 40 years of secrecy, the story finally began to break in Norway. Now it is told in English for the first time. Richly illustrated with photographs and maps.« less