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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Welky, David, author.     Subjects     MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.     Borup, George, 1885-1912.     Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)     Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Welky, David, author.       by title:      A wretched and preca...         MARC Display

A wretched and precarious situation : in search of the last Arctic frontier / David Welky. by Welky, David, author. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2017. Subjects MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.   Borup, George, 1885-1912.   Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)   Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. ISBN:  9780393254419 (hardcover) : 0393254410 (hardcover) Description:  viii, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 910.9113 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.9113 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.9113 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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