TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welky,David
TI  - A wretched and precarious situation: in search of the last Arctic frontier 
SN  - 9780393254419
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - MacMillan, Donald Baxter,
KW  - Borup, George,
KW  - Crocker Land Expedition
KW  - (1913-1917)
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - American
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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