The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909"Here, for the first time in a single volume, is the full and detailed saga of the nineteenth-century quest for two of the world's great geographical prizes. Despite the savage cold, the snow and winter darkness, and most of all the relentless ice, scores of expeditions left home ports to seek the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific while others sought the North Pole. Some went missing, and the search for these lost seamen added to the expanding knowledge of the frozen world."--Dust cover. |
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