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Sides's (Hellbound on His Trail) latest nonfiction thriller is a spellbinding account of the U.S. Navy's ill-fated 1879 expedition to the North Pole. The author explains that many respected 19th-century geologists believed warm ocean currents combined to create what they called the "Open Polar Sea" at the North Pole. James Gordon Bennett, the wealthy, flamboyant publisher of the New York Herald who sponsored Henry Morton Stanley's 1871 hunt for David Livingstone in Africa, approached naval officer George W. De Long about leadi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More