Farthest North: America's First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World by Todd Balf

Farthest North: America's First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World

Todd Balf

65 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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By the winter of 1854, the men had been trapped for almost two years, their ship frozen in a bank of ice somewhere below the North Pole. Some had lost limbs to scurvy and frostbite; some had succumbed to Arctic hysteria; all of them were starving,...

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