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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette 

by Hampton Sides

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, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the

Publisher

Anchor Books

Publication date

2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9780307946911