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In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the ‘unattainable object of our dreams’, and the urge to fill in this last great blank space on the map grew irresistible. In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and amid a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were destined for the uncharted waters of the Arctic. But it wasn’t long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies, facing a seemingly impossible trek across endless ice. Battling everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition fought madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival. ‘A brilliant exposition of narrative non-fiction: moving, harrowing, as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lore more interesting because it is als o true’ The Times ‘Tells the extraordinary story of this little known expedition in Hampton Sides’ well-honed style – meticulous research shoring up a fast-paced narrative.’ Financial Times ‘[Sides] has mined all the primary material, including extensive journals and medical logs carried home by survivors, and he quotes judiciously, interweaving the narrative with heartbreaking extracts from letters written by De Long’s young wife’ Spectator Hampton Sides is the bestselling author of the histories Hellhound on his Trail, Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, and an award-winning editor of Outside magazine. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons. .

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