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

by Hampton Sides

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

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James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

George Melville

Lieutenant George De Long

William Nindemann

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San Francisco, California, USA

Yakutsk, Russia

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Jeanette Expedition

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The privilege isn't given to everyone . . . You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it.
- - Henry James, 1881

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To My Brother
Link Sides
1957-2013

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(Prologue) On a misty morning in late April 1973, the Tigress, a steam barkentine out of Conception Bay, Newfoundland, was pushing through the loose floes and bergs off the coast of Labrador, heading for the seasonal seal-hunting grounds.

Close to midnight, on the evening of Sunday, November 8, 1874, as the early edition of the next day's New York Herald was being born, the gaslit building at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street bustled.

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Alexander, Caroline

Anderson, Scott

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910.4History and Geography › Geography and Travel › Geography and Travel › Accounts of travel and facilities for travellers

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G530.J37Geography, Anthropology and Recreation › Geography (General) › Adventures, shipwrecks, buried treasure, etc.

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