Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North collection_Royal Observatory Greenwich and spaceships

and spaceships

The early 1900s were a man’s world

Cutty Sark is now permanently berthed at Greenwich

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Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North collection_Royal Observatory Greenwich and spaceships'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic circle. Travelling with the crew of Icebreaker Otso, Horatio, whose last adventure saw him embedded on Maersk container vessels for the bestseller Down