The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 - Softcover

Berton, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385658451 ISBN 13: 9780385658454

Publisher: Anchor Canada, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Pierre Berton

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Culled from extensive research of handwritten diaries and private journals, Arctic Grail is the definitive book on the age of arctic exploration and adventure. Journey across the ice with a Who's Who of polar explorers, men of every temperament, including the pious and ambitious Edward Perry, the first explorer to probe deep into the Arctic labyrinth; Adolphus Greely, a Civil War veteran who had to watch his men starve to death on Ellesmere Island; Robert McClure, who claimed that he was the first to find the fabled Northwest Passage; and the flawed hero John Franklin, a meek naval officer whose expeditions were responsible for the deaths of more men than those of any other Arctic explorer. Travel with the adventurer Roald Amundsen, the cool Norwegian who completed a voyage in a tiny sloop that the British Navy failed to accomplish with its great three-masted ships; Frederick Cook, who lied about reaching the North Pole; and finally, the ruthless and paranoid Robert Peary, who claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909. As much about the explorers who braved impossible odds as it is about each expedition, Arctic Grail is an epic account of the Golden Age of Exploration at the top of the world. (6 X 9, 672 pages, b&w photos, maps, illustrations)

About the Author:

Pierre Berton makes his home in Kleinborg, Ontario. He has written over twenty books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385658451
• ISBN 13: 9780385658454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672