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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole Hardcover - 2002

by Fergus Fleming


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Fleming relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. 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. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments and fantastic eccentrics who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals, this is a riveting saga of humankind's search for the ultimate goal.

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There are five North Poles: the North Geographical Pole, the absolute, fixed cap of the globe; the North Magnetic Pole, to which our compasses point, and which is not stationary but rambles at present through the Canadian Arctic; the North Geomagnetic Pole, which centres the earth's magnetic field and sits today over north-west Greenland; the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, a magnificently named spot in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, which represents the point farthest in all directions from land (currently, 684 statute miles from the nearest coast); and there is even a Pole in the sky, the North Celestial Pole, the astronomical extension of a line drawn through the earth's axis which nearly - but not quite - hits Polaris.

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  • Title Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
  • Author Fergus Fleming
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 470
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove/Atlantic, New York
  • Date October 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780802117250 / 0802117252
  • Weight 1.88 lbs (0.85 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.3 x 1.58 in (23.72 x 16.00 x 4.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002021469
  • Dewey Decimal Code 919.804
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