Arctic obsession the lure of the far north
The epic history of the explorers and adventurers who risked--and sometimes lost--their lives in the quest to conquer and claim the Arctic. Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship and horrors endured by those who were drawn to...
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The song of the siren
- Introduction. The Arctic : who is she?
- Earliest explorations
- Eastern thrusts to Cathay
- First western thrusts
- The Hudson tragedy
- A Dane at Hudson Bay
- Russians in the Arctic
- The Franklin tragedy
- Americans of the Arctic
- The Scandinavians
- Canary in the cage
- People and politics.
