Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer by Chauncey Loomis

Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

Chauncey Loomis with Andrea Barrett

392 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative tense slow-paced
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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any s...

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