In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette
In 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, b...
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Doubleday
2014
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