In the Kingdom of Ice
New York: Doubleday, 2014. First. Hardbound. 8vo, large format [23.5 cms]. Half white-colored cloth with gray paper-covered boards, 456 pp. Endpapers carry color reproduction of William Bradford's Icebergs in the Arctic (1882). The text is also illustrated with historic photographs and maps between pp. 236-237.
In 1879 a New York publisher funded an official U.S. naval expedition to find the North Pole. The voyage of the USS Jeannette was almost immediately doomed when it got stuck in pack ice, then drifted for two years before sinking and leaving the crew of 32 marooned on an ice cap with minimal supplies. Only thirteen crew members survived. Hampton Sides is a journalist and historian best-known for Ghost Soldiers, the WWII story of the rescue of Bataan death march survivors which sold more than a million copies. Fine / Very Good, price sticker glue evident in lower right hand corner. Item #12
ISBN: 9780385535373
Price: $50.00