Finished the book!

I finished Into White Silence a couple of days ago, but had not the time to post the fact. I have never been haunted by a book quite to the extent of this one.
I finished it in the evening, and found that I had trouble falling asleep afterwards. Eaton comments in the book somewhere that the diary itself would make the novel, and he is right; the diary's writer, Lieut. Downes describes his situation with unfailing accuracy and depth. His later entries, during the last fews days of being stuck in an ice pack, describe the thin line between insanity and blind ambition. One of the most disturbing entries includes when he and the remaining crew members find their dead doctor's grave uncovered:

Several men have suggested that the culprits must be the dogs...the alternative being too ghastly to contemplate - the fact is that we have not heard any howling for some days now and I suspect that our animals are now long gone, or dead, and our grave robber is a far more human creature...

The narrative is unflinching; interjected only by a running commentary by the author detailing his research of the characters and how he discovered the journal (by accident!).
I'd recommend this novel to anyone interested in lost pasts...