A Wretched and Precarious Situation
In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land." Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent. Several years later, two of Peary's disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. What followed was a sequence of events that none of the explorers imagined possible. The men endured howling blizzards, food shortages, isolation, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime.
Populated with a cast of memorable characters and based on years of research in previously untapped sources, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a classic of Arctic adventure.
16 pages of illustrations
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
Borup, George, 1885-1912.
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American.
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