In the Kingdom of Ice The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette

Name: In the Kingdom of Ice The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette
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ISBN: 9780385535373

ISBN-10: 0385535376

ISBN-13: 9780385535373

Edition: 2014

Authors: Hampton Sides

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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores.James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/5/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.43" wide x 9.50" long x 1.47" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Hampton Sides, contributing editor of "Outside" & editor of "The Wild File," is also the author of "Ghost Soldiers". He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.