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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Main Author: Sides, Hampton
Format: BOOKCLUB KIT
Other Format: EBOOK EAUDIO
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Doubleday 2014
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