In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Discrimination & Racism Throughout the spring and summer

Throughout the spring and summer

ISBN13: B0007OPFCW ISBN10: B0007OPFCW Material Type: dvd

and industry insiders

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Discrimination & Racism Throughout the spring and summerNew York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm