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Ninety degrees North
the quest for the North Pole
By Fleming, Fergus
- ISBN
- 978-0-80211-725-0
- Publisher
- New York : Grove Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 12, 2002
It was once believed that the North Pole was surrounded by an open polar sea. Some of the attempts to prove this theory and to reach the pole itself once the theory was abandoned are the subject of this book. Fleming, author of the critically acclaimed Barrow's Boys, provides an entertaining history of the many failed attempts to reach the North Pole, from the hardship of the Kane expedition of 1853 through the Amundsen-Ellsworth Nort...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
