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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky
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Description for A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
Hardcover. A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJQ; HBLW; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 244 x 43. Weight in Grams: 734.
In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it “Crocker Land”. Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two of his disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan—with the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History—assembled a team to investigate. They pitched their two-year mission as a scientific tour de force to fill in the last blank space on the globe. But the Crocker Land Expedition became a five-year ordeal that endured a fatal boating accident, a drunken captain, ... Read more
In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it “Crocker Land”. Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two of his disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan—with the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History—assembled a team to investigate. They pitched their two-year mission as a scientific tour de force to fill in the last blank space on the globe. But the Crocker Land Expedition became a five-year ordeal that endured a fatal boating accident, a drunken captain, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393254419
SKU
V9780393254419
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About David Welky
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.
Reviews for A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
"Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was."
National Geographic "Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented."
The New York Times Book Review
National Geographic "Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented."
The New York Times Book Review