Ninety Degrees North
The Quest for the North Pole
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 balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Dr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9753-5
- EAN: 9780802197535
- Produktnummer: 21832998
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'616 KB
- Auflage: First Trade Paper Edition
Über den Autor
Fergus Fleming was born in 1959 and studied at and . He was a writer and editor at Time-Life Books for six years before becoming a freelance writer in 1991. His books include Barrow's Boys, Ninety Degrees North, The Sword and the Cross, and Killing Dragons, which was a New York Times Notable Book.
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