The Greatest Show in the Arctic, Volume 82: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905
(Part of the American Exploration and Travel Series Series)
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In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities--assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures--the Wellman expedition (1898-99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-2), and the Fiala-Ziegler...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0806152222
ISBN13:9780806152226
Release Date:May 2016
Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
Length:648 Pages
Weight:2.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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