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It commenced as President Ulysses S. Grant's bet for international glory after the Civil Warfare - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It concluded with Captain Charles Hall's fatality under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, researchers, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then emerged a brutal have difficulty for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar snow. When news of the devastating expedition and accusations of murder reached Washington, D.C., it led to a countrywide scandal, the official inspection, and a administration cover-up. The mystery of the captain's fatality remained unsolved for practically 100 years. But when Charles Hall's iced grave in north Greenland was exposed, forensic researchers were finally able to reach a surprising conclusion. Now, telling the entire story for the very first time, best-selling writer Bruce Henderson has researched original transcripts of the US Navy inquests, personal paperwork of Captain Hall, autopsy and forensic studies associated with the century-old offense, the ship's original log, and personal journals placed by crewmen to bring to life one of the most strange tragedies of American exploration.
