Cover image for Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole / Fergus Fleming.
TITLE:
Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole / Fergus Fleming.
Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
New York : Grove Press,
Edition:
1st American ed.
Physical Description:
470 p. : ill., maps.
Summary:
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780802117250
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2001"