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Lädt ... Fatal North: adventure and survival aboard the USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole (2001)von Bruce Henderson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Wow -- Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition, by Bruce Henderson, is an amazing book! First, the amount of research that went into this is amazing. Then, the fact that people are called to explore the harshest, farthest away spots on the planet is amazing. And the story itself -- murder, treachery, endurance in the most horrible of conditions, and such poor and clearly biased inquiry afterwards -- is amazing. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: "Compulsively readable" -San Francisco Examiner It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War—America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by thirty-three men, women and children, stranded on the polar ice—and two dramatic rescues by whaling ships. When news of the disastrous expedition and accusations of murder reached Washington D.C., it led to a nationwide scandal, an official investigation, and a government cover-up. The mystery of the captain's death remained unsolved for nearly 100 years. But when Charles Hall's frozen grave in northern Greenland was opened, and hair and fingernail samples were retrieved, forensic scientists were finally able to reach a shocking conclusion. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Henderson essentially follows the expedition from the perspective of George Tyson, a subordinate officer on the ship, who like its leader Captain Charles Francis Hall, wanted to reach the North Pole but is stunned by the lack of motivation and decline of discipline by Hall’s successor. Tyson latter becomes the nominal leader—due to the drastic decline of discipline on the ship—of a group of crew and the expedition’s Inuit abandoned by the ship on the ice and survived six months before rescue. One of the biggest questions that Henderson attempts to tackle is if the expedition’s leader was murdered and if so who did the deed, but the evidence and time result in no hard conclusion.
Fatal North is historical book of adventure and survival with a dash of mystery that Bruce Henderson wraps together in easy-to-read prose that shows great research. ( )