Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by Fergus Fleming

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole

Fergus Fleming

496 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
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In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decid...

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