Once you start, you won't stop.' - Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down 'Reads like a first-class epic thriller.' - Lev Grossman * Time * 'Unforgettable.a pulse-racing epic of endurance set against an exceedingly bizarre Arctic backdrop.
Stiles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 'An astonishingly good story.' - Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt 'Harrowing and impeccably paced.' * New Yorker * 'Hampton Sides is a master storyteller, and here he has delivered a stunningly vivid account of perhaps the most dramatic polar mission you never heard of. a marvelous nonfiction thriller.' * Wall Street Journal * ' is a scrupulous researcher who has mined all the primary material, including extensive journals and medical logs carried home by survivors, and he quotes judiously, interleaving the narrative with heartbreaking extracts from letters written by De Long's young wife' * Spectator * 'A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.' - T.J. a brilliant exposition of narrative non-fiction: moving, harrowing, as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lore more interesting because it is also true' * The Times * 'A splendid book in every way. 'Tells the extraordinary story of this little known expedition in Hampton Sides' well-honed style - meticulous research shoring up a fast-paced narrative'.
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