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The "first-rate detective story" ("The New York Times Book Review") of an amateur explorer in search of the lost Franklin expedition who perished amid rumors of murder and mutiny in the far North.
"This book is a narrative which has been prepared from official papers and from journals of the officers and men of the Expedition, as well as from valuable private contributions acknowledged in the text. The thread of the story of the Polaris has been drawn chiefly from a compilation made by Mr. R. W. D. Bryan, the Astronomer of the Expedition; the incidents of the ice-floe party have been furnished by the journals and notebooks of Geo. E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator, and of others with him on the floe, and by the testimony given before the board organized by the Secretary of the Navy, June 5, 1873."--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
First published in 1864, this two-volume work describes the American explorer Charles Francis Hall's first Arctic expedition.
The account, first published in 1876, of a dramatic and ill-fated American expedition to the North Pole.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.