David Welky

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

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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, a shipwreck, marooned rescue par… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-25441-9
EAN: 9780393254419
Produktnummer: 19745135
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 480 S.

Über den Autor

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.