A wretched and precarious situation : in search of the last Arctic frontier /
Welky, David,
A wretched and precarious situation : in search of the last Arctic frontier / David Welky. - First edition. - viii, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "Mine by the right of discovery" -- The tenderfeet -- The best year -- "I wish I were there now" -- Commander Borup? -- A fine fellow -- The boys -- Goodbye -- A true leader -- Blocked -- Home -- Arctic living -- Reaching out -- The evil spirit -- Slaughter ground -- On the ice -- Pujoq -- Crocker Land -- Panic -- Sundown -- Mail -- The world beyond -- Disintegration -- In a Pickel -- Flight -- Discovery and disappointment -- Waiting -- Reunion and separation -- Off the map -- Last days -- No hero's welcome -- Endings -- Epilogue: Mysteries solved.
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the worlds most inhospitable places. In 1906, in the ice fields northwest of Greenland Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land." Several years later George Borup and Donald MacMillan assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. What followed was a sequence of events that trapped the explorers in a true-life adventure story, as the men endured howling blizzards, unearthly cold, food shortages, isolation, a fatal boating accident, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime.
9780393254419 0393254410
2016023022
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 --Travel--Arctic regions.
Borup, George, 1885-1912.
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American.
A wretched and precarious situation : in search of the last Arctic frontier / David Welky. - First edition. - viii, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "Mine by the right of discovery" -- The tenderfeet -- The best year -- "I wish I were there now" -- Commander Borup? -- A fine fellow -- The boys -- Goodbye -- A true leader -- Blocked -- Home -- Arctic living -- Reaching out -- The evil spirit -- Slaughter ground -- On the ice -- Pujoq -- Crocker Land -- Panic -- Sundown -- Mail -- The world beyond -- Disintegration -- In a Pickel -- Flight -- Discovery and disappointment -- Waiting -- Reunion and separation -- Off the map -- Last days -- No hero's welcome -- Endings -- Epilogue: Mysteries solved.
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the worlds most inhospitable places. In 1906, in the ice fields northwest of Greenland Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land." Several years later George Borup and Donald MacMillan assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. What followed was a sequence of events that trapped the explorers in a true-life adventure story, as the men endured howling blizzards, unearthly cold, food shortages, isolation, a fatal boating accident, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime.
9780393254419 0393254410
2016023022
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 --Travel--Arctic regions.
Borup, George, 1885-1912.
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American.