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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Exploration)

by: Chauncey Loomis, Andrea Barrett

: Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Exploration)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.804092
EAN: 9780375755255
ISBN: 037575525X
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: April 04, 2000
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: April 04, 2000
Sales Rank: 652822
Studio: Modern Library



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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, an obscure Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and religious and patriotic fervor. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final -- and fatal--one taking him farther north than any Westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances.

Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed the frozen remains and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence.

Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good reading
Charles Hall is the most extravagant figure in arctic exploration. His life is a poem. His biography ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Farthest North?
What causes a merely modestly successful, married middle class businessman during the American civil ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Arctic Fascination
As a resident of Barrow, Alaska, the farthest north community in the United States, I share some of the ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - 4 1/2 Stars - Well Done Accounting of American Exploration
This true accounting about the obsession Charles Francis Hall, a somewhat obscure Cincinatti businessman, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Weird and Tragic is Right, Particulary Weird
Chauncey Loomis' Weird and Tragic Shores is indeed all that. It tells the story of businessman and amateur ... Read More

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