A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier - Couverture souple

Welky, David

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ISBN 10 : 0393354822 ISBN 13 : 9780393354829

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2017

Synopsis

"Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was." National Geographic

In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a heretofore unknown land looming in the distance. He called it "Crocker Land." Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two of Peary's disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan-with the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History-assembled a team of amateurs to investigate. They pitched their two-year mission as a scientific tour de force that would fill in the last blank space on the globe. Instead, the Crocker Land Expedition became a five-year ordeal that endured Arctic blizzards, dwindling supplies, a fatal boating accident, a drunken sea captain, a shipwreck, marooned rescue parties, disease, dissension, and a crewman-turned-murderer. Based on a trove of unpublished letters, diaries, and field notes, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a harrowing Arctic adventure unlike any other.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Welky is the author of The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937, The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II, and other books. He is a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393354822
• ISBN 13: 9780393354829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible