Weird and Tragic Shores

Name: Weird and Tragic Shores
Brand: Random House USA Inc
SKU: 9780375755255
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The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

Autor: C.C. Loomis

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Random House USA Inc

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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a C...

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Autor

C.C. Loomis

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2000

Stránek

392

EAN

9780375755255

ISBN

037575525X

Enbook ID

04603121

Vydavatel

Random House USA Inc

Hmotnost

466

Rozměry

218 x 141 x 24

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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances. Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature. With a new Introduction by Andrea Barrett, author of "The Voyage of the Narwhal

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