![]() ![]() ![]() naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington De Long, who had gained fame for a rescue operation off the coast of Greenland. Now he was keen to re-create that sensation on an even more epic scale. James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured the world's attention by dispatching Stanley to Africa to find Dr. ![]() National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. ![]()
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