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The thrilling excursion of one crew's harrowing trip back again from the Earth's most foreboding frozen hell Within the 1870s, newspaperman Wayne Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald drummed up enthusiasm and publicity for his newspaper through highly publicized missions of exploration. In 1879, Bennett's idea for a voyage was his most audacious up to now: the North Pole. To do this, he chosen a team of naval veterans in addition to a smattering of civilians with specialised knowledge in meteorology, whaling, and naturalism. The men up to speed the Jeannette set off in September of 1879. This might be the previous time anyone noticed them for two years. The product of committed research into personal histories, memoirs, and classified congressional investigation records, Hell on Glaciers is a exceptional document: a novelization of history, turning the unpleasant ordeal of the brave men of the Jeannette into a riveting narrative. Written with a weathered seaman's familiarity, the storyplot brilliantly captures a most perilous voyage from the point of view of the ship's chief engineer. The men of the Jeannette endure a few months trapped in an Arctic ice load up, and then begin a anxious trek for home.
