About the book: year / Once upon a time, the British established control over Spitsbergen. For a long time, the huge frozen archipelago did not seem very necessary. But at the end of the 19th century, expeditions discovered innumerable deposits of resources there. And in 1886 the Great Cold came. It turned out to be impossible to evacuate people to the south due to anarchy and monstrous equatorial disasters. The idea of ​​moving north seemed crazy. But people knew that powerful heat generators had once been built there for research parties...