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Wretched Precarious Situation Arctic Polar History Peary US Exploration Book
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- Book Title
- Wretched and Precarious Situation : in Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- Brand
- Three Hills Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393254419
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Polar Regions, Expeditions & Discoveries
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Item Weight
- 25.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land." Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean. Several years later, two of Peary's disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. Before them lay a chance at the kind of lasting fame enjoyed by Magellan, Columbus, and Captain Cook. While filling in the last blank space on the globe, they might find new species of plants or animals, or even men; in the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, anything seemed possible. Renowned scientific institutions, and even former president Theodore Roosevelt, rushed to endorse the expedition. What followed was a sequence of events that none of the explorers could have imagined. Trapped in a true-life adventure story, the men endured howling blizzards, unearthly cold, food shortages, isolation, a fatal boating accident, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime. But the team pushed on through every obstacle, driven forward by the mystery of Crocker Land and faint hopes that they someday would make it home. Populated with a cast of memorable characters, and based on years of research in previously untapped sources, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a harrowing Arctic narrative unlike any other.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393254410
ISBN-13
9780393254419
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219583884
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wretched and Precarious Situation : in Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Polar Regions, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
25.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Lc Classification Number
G670 1913.W45 2016
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Welky's fast-moving, evocative narrative paints a vivid portrait of the men who, along with their Inuit companions, risked their lives for 'dreams of lost continents awaiting discovery.', What a book!....Excellent writing that combines some of the serious novelist's techniques with information that can only come from hundreds of hours with long-forgotten diaries, letters and newspaper accounts....Comparable but better-known authors in the genre include David McCullough, John Barry and Timothy Egan., David Welky reveals in this engrossing account....the classic litany of illness, privation and howling blizzards, [and] a singularly bizarre finding about [polar explorer Robert] Peary's original sighting., Evenhanded and thoroughly researched....This book fills a significant and often overlooked piece of the Arctic exploration puzzle. Arctic enthusiasts, armchair adventurers, and dreamers of lost worlds will find much to appreciate., Welky is a superb writer, and he mines the interpersonal relationships of the expedition's participants - the loyalties, the friendships grown or torn asunder, the cultural insensitivities - as effectively as he describes the travel, the exploration into unknown territory, and the constant flirtation with death at the hands of the elements., Making magnificent use of documents and recreating the years-long Arctic sojourn with the drama and immediacy of a tension-filled adventure novel, [Welky] conjures a romantic quest emblematic of the rugged manliness of the time.... vastly entertaining., A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment....His seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic was virtually as harsh and inaccessible a place as the Moon or Mars., Making magnificent use of documents and recreating the years-long Arctic sojourn with the drama and immediacy of a tension-filled adventure novel, [Welky] conjures a romantic quest emblematic of the rugged manliness of the time...vastly entertaining., ""Drawing on extensive expedition diaries....This is a classic explorer's narrative, pitting ambition against the limits of endurance."", Welky's well-judged and well-written revival of this obscure expedition augurs to be as popular as any in the polar-exploration genre.
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-023022
Dewey Decimal
910.9113
Dewey Edition
23
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