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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
Fergus Fleming
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| #1962701 in Books | Grove Press | 2003-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.18 x1.07 x5.88l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 496 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent overview of arctic exploration.|By T. Kadrie|I've read a range of books on polar exploration, but this book does a good job of delivering shorter but still-entertaining coverage of a broad range of explorers. I love it so much I upgraded my old used paperback copy to a Kindle, for convenience.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.||"[Fleming] has great narrative gifts, and his brief character sketches draw readers in while pithy summaries of each expedition carry us on breathlessly from one ice hummock to the next."
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonist...
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